Cooper v. State

PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of rape of his own daughter who was at the time under fifteen years of age, and his punishment fixed at twenty years confinement in the penitentiary. The offense is alleged to have been committed on or about September 1, 1912.

The evidence is amply sufficient to sustain the verdict. It is unnecessary to recite it.

Appellant has two bills of exception to the ruling of the court in holding that two several jurors did not disqualify themselves under article 692, subdivision 13 Code Criminal Procedure, and that because thereof he had to challenge…