Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas June 25, 1919, No. 5163. (Calhoun v. State)

lead-opinion

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was given the death sentence for rape of Mrs. Mattie Hallmark.

The occurrence is stated to have taken place at about 7:30 A. M. down in the big woods in the lower part of Walker County, Texas. The prosecutrix lived with her husband and three children in a logging camp; most of the people in said camp were negroes.