Case ID: tex-crim_109/html/0190-01.html
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Author: {"author": "LATTIMORE, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Clemente Rodriguez v. The State.
    No. 11409.
    Delivered March 7, 1928.
    Rape — Evidence—Held Sufficient.
    Where no bills of exception appear in the record and the facts showing an atrocious ravishment and robbery, the identity of the accused' being established by two credible witnesses, the judgment, carrying the death penalty, must be affirmed.
    Appeal from the District Court of Bexar County. Tried below before the Hon. W. S. Anderson, Judge.
    Appeal from a conviction for rape, penalty assessed at death.
    No brief filed for appellant.
    
      A. A. Dawson, State’s Attorney for the State.
   LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for rape, punishment death.

There are no bills of exception in this record. The statement of facts consists of the short testimony of two eye-witnesses tc this transaction, two witnesses to defendant’s reputation, and one witness to his sanity. The appellant plead guilty. The facts are revolting. A nineteen-year-old girl testified that she was riding in a car with her fiancee at night. That appellant and another Mexican stepped on the running boards of the car and by means of the exhibition of a pistol took charge of the car and its occupants. They drove the car a long distance in the country and there each of said men had repeated acts of intercourse with the young woman, over her protest. They also robbed her of her money and ring's. Her identification and that of the young man who was with her and whom she has since married, of the appellant, was positive. We have carefully considered the facts and are unable to say the jury were not justified in inflicting the extreme penalty of the law.

No error appearing, the judgment will be affirmed.

Affirmed.