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SHELTON v. STATE

No. 45994.

494 S.W.2d 851 (1973)

James Jasper SHELTON, Jr., Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied June 6, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dalton Gandy, Fort Worth, for appellant.

Doug Crouch, Dist. Atty., Marvin D. Snodgrass, Rufus J. Adcock and Roger W. Crampton, Asst. Dist. Attys., Fort Worth, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., and Robert A. Huttash, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

OPINION

ROBERTS, Judge.

This appeal is taken from a conviction for the offense of statutory rape; punishment was assessed by the jury at life imprisonment.

Five grounds of error are raised, two of which concern an alleged illegal search and seizure.

On October 21, 1970, the eleven-year-old prosecutrix was selling candy from house to house. Appellant abducted the young girl and raped her. Two days...

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