Walker v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

—Conviction is for statutory rape, punishment assessed at five years confinement in the penitentiary.

We gather from the record that appellant is a negro man about sixty-two years of age, and the alleged injured female, Jewell Keith, a little negro girl ten years of age. Upon the occasion of this alleged offense it is claimed by the State that appellant took Jewell Keith and Ethel Wren, the latter being about the same age as prosecutrix, on the creek fishing. Jewell Keith testifies that ostensibly for the purpose of finding a better fishing place appellant took her with him,…