JONES v. STATE

No. 35779.

368 S.W.2d 220 (1963)

Merriman Madison JONES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied June 19, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. O. McMillan, Stephenville, for appellant.

Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is fondling; the punishment, 5 years.

The father and mother of the injured child testified that because they were both ill they permitted their four-year old daughter to go to Clifton for a few days to stay with the child's maternal grandmother, Mrs. Dessie Dodson, and her daughter, Billie Jean Olson. When the father went to get the girl, he found her in the front room alone with appellant. Upon the child's return to her home in...

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