King v. State

OPINION

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is fondling; the punishment, IS years.

The evidence adduced by the state reflects that appellant stopped at the yard of the house where the eleven year old boy named in the indictment was getting a Christmas tree out of a station wagon and, after asking the child for a match and receiving it, put an arm around the boy’s back and fondled the boy’s sexual parts with his other hand.

Testifying as a witness in his own behalf, appellant denied having fondled the child and testified that he patted him on the back after the boy asked him for a dime.

The jury…