JACKSON v. STATE

No. 27577.

279 S.W.2d 354 (1955)

Floyd Ray JACKSON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 25, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry Tirey, Joe McNicholas, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Crim. Dist. Atty., Dallas, George P. Blackburn, Asst. Dist. Atty., Dallas, James K. Allen, Asst. Dist. Atty., Dallas, Leon Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, death.

The prosecutrix, a thirty-year old married woman who resided in a rural section of Dallas County, testified that she responded to a knock at the front door on the morning in question and there found a colored man (whom she later learned to be one named Bennett), who told her that he was out of gasoline and indicated an automobile parked in the road a short distance away. She stated that...

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