Edwards v. State
Decision Date | 01 December 1915 |
Docket Number | (No. 3854.) |
Citation | 181 S.W. 195 |
Parties | EDWARDS v. STATE. |
Court | Texas Court of Criminal Appeals |
Appeal from Criminal District Court, Harris County; C. W. Robinson, Judge.
W. A. Edwards was convicted of rape, and he appeals. Affirmed.
A. G. Lipscomb and R. E. Tompkins, both of Hempstead, and Atkinson, Graham & Atkinson, of Houston, for appellant. John H. Crooker, Cr. Dist. Atty., E. T. Branch and T. J. Harris, all of Houston, and C. C. McDonald, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
No brief has been filed in behalf of appellant, and, as this case has been so thoroughly briefed by counsel for the state, we adopt the brief as the opinion of the court. It is as follows:
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