Court of Appeals of Texas July 1, 1881 (Thompson v. State)

White, P. J.

Having been convicted of rape upon one Eliza Janssen, alleged to have been committed on the night of the loth of July, 1880, in Austin county, appellant has appealed to this court from the judgment, which affixed his punishment at death.

Two bills of exception, reserved on the trial by the defendant to rulings of the court, appear in the record. The first is as follows, viz.