BELCHER, Commissioner.
The conviction is for statutory rape; the punishment, fifteen years.
The state relies for a conviction upon the testimony of the prosecutrix, age thirteen, and her mother and also upon the medical records of the hospital where the prosecutrix was examined.
To constitute the offense of rape it was essential that the proof show penetration, beyond a reasonable doubt. Art. 1187, Vernon's Ann.P.C.; 4 Branch's 2d 300, Sec. 1977.<...
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