MORRISON v. STATE

No. 29349.

309 S.W.2d 441 (1957)

Jim Earl MORRISON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

December 18, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McCarthy, Rose & Haynes, Amarillo, for appellant.

Wayne Bagley, Dist. Atty., F. J. Baughman, Asst. Dist. Atty., Amarillo, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Judge.

Appellant was found guilty of incest and assessed a term of five years, the indictment returned on December 6, 1956, alleging that on or about March 17, 1954, he did carnally know his daughter.

The sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the jury's finding that the offense was committed within three years prior to December 6, 1956, the date the indictment was returned and filed, is challenged.

The prosecutrix testified that appellant...

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