Case Name: Clemente Rodriguez v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1928-03-07
Citations: 109 Tex. Crim. 190
Docket Number: No. 11409
Parties: Clemente Rodriguez v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 109
Pages: 190–190

Head Matter:
Clemente Rodriguez v. The State.
No. 11409.
Delivered March 7, 1928.
No brief filed for appellant.
A. A. Dawson, State’s Attorney for the State.

Opinion:
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.