Taggart v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is persuading a child under the age of 14 years to enter a motor vehicle for the purpose of committing an aggravated assault upon such child under Article 535b, V.A.P.C.; the punishment, one year in the penitentiary.

The injured party was a six-year old girl of Latin-American extraction. She and her ten-year old brother were on the way home from school when the appellant came along in an automobile and offered them a dime to get in the automobile with him. He then drove about two miles in the country where he brought his automobile to a halt.

Lupe, the…