WALKER v. STATE

No. 42020.

441 S.W.2d 201 (1969)

Rufus WALKER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied June 11, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Johns, Willard & Hannah, by Theodore R. Johns, Beaumont, Gene Barrington, Silsbee (on appeal only), for appellant.

W. C. Lindsay, Dist. Atty., Cimron Campbell, Asst. Dist. Atty., Beaumont, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is Statutory Rape; the punishment, 25 years.

Appellant's first ground of error is that the court erred in granting the State's motion in limine instructing appellant's counsel not to question the prosecutrix as to her chastity prior to the offense alleged. Art. 1183, Vernon's Ann.P.C., reads in part:

"provided that if she is fifteen years of age or over the defendant may show in consent cases she was...

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