Brown v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Appellant was charged with burglarizing the private residence of A. A. Herrman with intent to commit rape upon Edith Herrman, a female under the.age of eighteen years. A second count charged him with burglary with intent to commit theft, but only the first count was submitted to the jury. Upon conviction his punishment was fixed at five years in the penitentiary.

We discuss only the one question of the sufficiency of the evidence. Appellant was a mexican youth under seventeen years of age at the time of the transaction complained of. He lived with his father and stepmother on a…