COCHRAN v. STATE

No. 27527.

283 S.W.2d 947 (1955)

Jesse COCHRAN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied October 26, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howze & Howze, Monahans, by Murray J. Howze, for appellant.

Warren Burnett, Dist. Atty., Odessa, Leon Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for assault with intent to rape; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for a term of fifty years.

The prosecutrix was a young girl six years of age at the time of the alleged offense and seven years old at the time of the trial.

The appellant, who was married and forty years of age, was the uncle of the prosecutrix, having married her father's sister.

It is shown that the alleged offense was committed...

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