JOSEY v. STATE

No. 38945.

401 S.W.2d 253 (1966)

James Artis JOSEY, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied April 27, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tom Upchurch, Jr., Amarillo, for appellant.

Dee D. Miller, Dist. Atty., Patrick H. Mulloy, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Amarillo, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


BELCHER, Commissioner.

The offense is statutory rape; the punishment assessed was ten years.

The sole contention urged for reversal is that the evidence is insufficient to support the conviction.

The prosecutrix testified that she was seventeen years of age on the date of this trial on March 10, 1965, and had lived with the appellant, her stepfather, and her mother, from the time of their marriage on February 10, 1961, and that her three brothers also...

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