BATES v. STATE

No. 29122.

305 S.W.2d 366 (1957)

Alton BATES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 19, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl Cannon, Groesbeck, W. A. Keils, Jr., Teague, C. S. Farmer, Waco, for appellant.

Owen F. Watkins, County Atty., L. E. Eubanks, Asst. County Atty., Groesbeck, and Leon Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for statutory rape; the punishment, life imprisonment.

The indictment filed on the 5th day of October, 1956, charged that the offense was committed on or about the 20th day of June, 1956.

The prosecutrix, 13 years of age at the time of the trial, testified to numerous acts of sexual intercourse with the appellant, her step-father, during a period of time while she resided in his home in the City of Mexia, Limestone...

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