WILLIAMS v. STATE

No. 36293.

375 S.W.2d 449 (1964)

Hubert Otto WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied March 4, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Clayton Rivers, Jr., El Paso, for appellant.

Edwin F. Berliner, Dist. Atty., Sam W. Callan, Asst. Dist. Atty., El Paso, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is incest; the punishment, 8 years.

The indictment alleged that the appellant, on or about December 12, 1962, did unlawfully and incestuously, carnally know and have carnal knowledge of his daughter.

The daughter named in the indictment was the principal state's witness. The court correctly instructed the jury that she was an accomplice and that her testimony required corroboration.

She testified that she...

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