Gulley v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is rápe; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for ten years.

Appellant was convicted under a count in the indictment charging, in substance, that on the 3rd of March, 1935, he had carnal knowledge of Edna Atkinson, a female under the age of 18 years, she not being appellant’s wife.

At the time of the alleged commission of the offense prosecutrix lacked approximately twenty nine days of being sixteen years of age. She and appellant had been keeping company for some time. According to her testimony, when she rode with appellant in his automobile she knew…