Bradford v. State

OPINION

ODOM, Judge.

This appeal is taken from a conviction for the offense of rape of a mentally diseased woman. The jury assessed punishment at fifty years.

The record reflects that the prosecutrix was eighteen years old at the time of the offense. She had never learned to walk, wore a diaper because she had no control over her bodily functions, slobbered a great deal, could not feed herself and thus had to be fed like an infant, and could not talk. No medical testimony was introduced concerning her mental capacity, but lay witnesses who had known her from approximately four to fourteen years…