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SHEARIN v. STATE

No. 27646.

280 S.W.2d 275 (1955)

Will SHEARIN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 15, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ben Hagman, V. P. Craven, Weatherford, for appellant.

Leon Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for statutory rape; the punishment, ten years in the penitentiary.

The state's evidence shows that after an argument between appellant and his wife she left their home; that soon thereafter appellant and the prosecutrix, who was his wife's thirteen-year-old sister, made a search but were unable to locate her. Prosecutrix testified that they then took a friend to a nearby town; that while returning home about 11 P.M...

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