Tucker v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

This is the second appeal of this cause. The former appeal, which was a death sentence, will be found reported in 137 Texas Crim. Rep., 112, 128 S. W. (2d) 402. Upon a conviction in this cause, the jury awarded appellant a life term in the penitentiary.

In the former appeal the facts were not set forth to any great extent, and we will therefore give a short résumé thereof herein.

Irene Tucker was the daughter of appellant, and was fifteen years old at the happening of the matters hereinafter set forth. In June, 1938, Irene had five sisters, and her mother, father and these sisters…