DAVIDSON, Commissioner.
The offense is rape; the punishment, five years' confinement in the penitentiary.
This is a statutory rape case—that is, carnal knowledge of a female under the age of eighteen years, with or without consent, and not the wife of the accused. Art. 1183, P.C.
The prosecutrix, fourteen years of age, testified to facts showing that appellant engaged in an act of sexual intercourse with her without her consent. The appellant...
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