Haggart v. State

Appellant was convicted of rape on a girl under fifteen years of age, and his punishment assessed at ninety-nine years confinement in the State penitentiary.

The facts would show that appellant and O.M. Bowers were engineers on the Fort Worth Denver Railroad. Mr. Bowers' wife dying several years ago, he married again, and the relations between his second wife and little daughter Helen not being pleasant, he placed her with appellant, who agreed to care for her, and the evidence would show that in so far as keeping her in school, feeding and clothing her, his attention was all that could be…