Court Opinion

ID: 9770472
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 16:06:04.065308+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:17.641047
License: Public Domain

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.
MORRISON, Judge.
Appellants earnestly urge that the court erred in failing to require the state to elect as to which act proven would be relied upon for conviction. In our original opinion we stated that our curiosity was aroused by the failure of any of the accuseds to claim a severance. The same is true as to the failure to move the court to require the state to elect or the failure to object to the court’s charge because no election had been made. Since the question of election was not raised in the trial court, it cannot be raised here.
Appellants say that the prosecutrix got in the automobile in order to secure transportation, which they say she did not need, or for the purpose of having intercourse. We know not why the woman entered the automobile, but it is obvious to us from reading the entire record that she did not do so inténding to have intercourse with these seven young men or with the knowledge that they intended to rape her.
Remaining convinced that we properly disposed of this cause originally, appellants’ motion for rehearing is overruled;