CALDWELL v. STATE

No. 28065.

287 S.W.2d 176 (1956)

Sandy CALDWELL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 22, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry Tirey and Joe McNicholas, by Henry Tirey, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Criminal Dist. Atty., Lancaster Smith, Charles S. Potts, Assts. Criminal Dist. Atty., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is statutory rape; the punishment, 65 years.

The prosecutrix testified that the appellant, her step father, had intercourse with her, from which she became pregnant and gave birth to a child.

The appellant denied that he was the author of the prosecutrix' downfall and offered his wife's sister who had lived in the home with him and his family, who testified that she had never observed any improper conduct of the...

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