SERVANTEZ v. STATE

No. 32516.

341 S.W.2d 657 (1960)

Vicente SERVANTEZ, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

December 7, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Billy Hall, Littlefield, for appellant.

Bill Sheehan, Dist. Atty., Friona, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is statutory rape; the punishment, 6 years.

The offense is alleged to have occurred on January 29, 1957. At that time, prosecutrix was twelve years old and was living in a house on a farm in Lamb County which was occupied by her sister and her husband, and appellant and his wife. Appellant was the brother of prosecutrix's sister's husband.

Prosecutrix testified that when she came home from school on the day in...

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