PURIFOY v. STATE

No. 28378.

293 S.W.2d 663 (1956)

Samuel Willis PURIFOY, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 27, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chas. B. Spicer, Jr., Pasadena, King C. Haynie, Houston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Eugene Brady, Thomas D. White, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


BELCHER, Commissioner.

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

The prosecutrix testified that she was twelve years of age; that when she returned from school to her home about September 20, 1955, the appellant, her stepfather, locked the doors of the house while her mother was away and the children were in the yard, took her into the back bedroom, removed her panties, and placed his private parts into hers which...

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