Martinez v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

— Appellant Appellant was convicted of statutory rape in the Criminal District Court of Tarrant County, and his punishment fixed at fifty years in the penitentiary.

The parties to the transaction were all Mexicans, the prosecutrix being a little girl eight years of age and appellant a young Mexican twenty years old. Prosecutrix testified that twice on the 17th of September 1922 appellant penetrated her person to a limited degree with his privates, one occasion being in a car and the other near her mother’s home. It was shown by the State’s testimony that from some cause the…