Henard v. State

HEUDERSOH, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of rape, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of twenty-five years.

There are two bills of exception which raise practically the same question. These relate to the proof of other acts of intercourse than that alleged in the indictment, and for which appellant was tried. When prosecutrix, Luna Wilson, was first placed on the stand, the State proved by her an act of intercourse occurring during the spring of 1903, about com planting time; and this was the transaction relied on by the State for the conviction. The State…