Booker v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for rape, punishment being twenty-five years in the penitentiary.

Appellant was charged with rape upon Julia Booker, alleged to be under 18 years of age. She was appellant’s own daughter. The undisputed evidence shows that appellant began to have intercourse with Julia early in the year 1928, at which time she was a little over sixteen years of age. This relation continued uninterruptedly and with disgusting frequency up to the time this prosecution was instituted. The evidence shows without dispute an act of intercourse on September 25th, 1929. The state elected…