MILLER v. STATE

No. 28888.

301 S.W.2d 103 (1957)

James MILLER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 20, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No attorney for appellant of record on appeal.

Harry Loftis, Criminal Dist. Atty., R. S. Burruss, Asst. Criminal Dist. Atty., Tyler, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is statutory rape; the punishment, 50 years.

Prosecutrix, who was fourteen years of age on the day charged in the indictment, testified that the appellant, her father, had begun to have acts of intercourse with her when she was twelve and continued to have intercourse with her intermittently until she left his home and reported his conduct to the authorities. She stated that...

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