Eckert v. State

EARL W. SMITH, Justice.

John Eckert, in a consolidated jury trial, was adjudged guilty of the offenses of rape of a child and aggravated rape, respectively. The jury assessed punishment for rape of a child at twenty years, and for aggravated rape at sixty years. Separate appeals were perfected by each of appellant’s attorneys. Since the assignments of error arise out of the same trial occurrence, both cases are consolidated in this opinion. The judgment of the trial court in each case is affirmed.

The assignment of error in the aggravated rape case is that the trial judge’s comment on the…