CANTU v. STATE

No. 32613.

341 S.W.2d 451 (1960)

Gerardo Ramirez CANTU, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

December 27, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Benavides, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Thomas B. Thorpe, Frank Watts and Phil Burleson, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is statutory rape; the punishment, 12 years.

The prosecutrix, 12 years of age on the date of the alleged offense, testified that on the night in question the appellant and his four companions, Frank Perez, Daniel Rameriz, Florencio Garcia, and Johnny Hernandez, came to her home in the appellant's automobile; that Perez came to the door and after engaging her in a conversation she went out to the automobile and got in upon her...

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