LASSERE v. STATE

No. 42956.

458 S.W.2d 81 (1970)

John LASSERE, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied October 14, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack A. Efron, San Antonio (court appointed on appeal only), for appellant.

Ted Butler, Dist. Atty., Preston H. Dial, Jr., and John L. Quinlan, Asst. Dist. Attys., San Antonio, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

The conviction is for statutory rape of a fourteen-year-old girl; the punishment, forty years.

The record reflects that a group of mostly teenagers was having a beer and marihuana party in a wooded area off Babcock Road in San Antonio when the rape occurred. According to the testimony of Leslie Ann Perry, the appellant had indicated a desire to have sexual intercourse with the prosecutrix and had asked the Perry girl to start...

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