Ables v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is rape by carnal knowledge of a female under the age of eighteen years; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of nine years.

The prosecutrix testified that the act of intercourse took place; that she was seventeen and one-half years of age at. the time.

There was testimony attacking her previous chaste character and that issue was submitted to the jury.

Bills of exception No. 2 and 3, as qualified, present no error.

Bill No. 1 reveals that after the jury had been impaneled and sworn, and as they were about to retire from the court…