PETERSON v. STATE

No. 38727.

397 S.W.2d 235 (1965)

John William PETERSON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied January 12, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Billy C. Powell (On Appeal Only), Houston, J. Robert Harris (On Appeal Only), Houston, for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Carl E. F. Dally, James C. Brough and C. A. Davis, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for indecent exposure to a child; the punishment, eight years.

The testimony of the state reveals that the prosecutrix, (a female), age 9 at the time of the alleged offense, went with her stepmother and stepsister, age 3, to a washateria. They parked the car in front, placed the clothes in a washer and returned to the car. In a brief time the appellant parked his car in front and entered the washateria. When the mother...

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