MOATS v. STATE

No. 39642.

402 S.W.2d 921 (1966)

Richard MOATS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 18, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marcial A. Knapp, Angleton, for appellant.

Tom Kenyon, Dist. Atty., Wallace N. Shaw and Ogden Bass, Asst. Dist. Attys., Angleton, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is sodomy; the punishment, three years.

The prosecuting witness, a boy sixteen years of age, testified that on the occasion in question he had run away from home and spent three nights with the appellant in a trailer, in Freeport. On the first night, which was on Saturday, the two looked at pictures of girls "that were not fully clothed." On the second night, after they had gone to bed, the appellant, with consent of the prosecuting...

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