HENSLEY v. STATE

No. 37773.

388 S.W.2d 424 (1965)

John E. HENSLEY, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied April 14, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dougal C. Pope, Houston, for appellant.

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


BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction under Art. 535d, Vernon's Ann.P.C. is for fondling a child; the punishment, fifteen years.

The testimony of the state reveals that the appellant had married the mother of the prosecutrix about four years before the trial of this case.

The prosecutrix testified that she was eleven years of age on the day of the trial; that on the night of October 10, while asleep in bed with her sister, she was awakened by the appellant...

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