Cook v. State

' Willard Cook, referred to herein as the defendant, was convicted of violating the age of consent statute, his punishment being* fixed at 3 years in the penitentiary.

Ollie Bledsoe Cook testified that on March 25, 1935, as well as on two subsequent occasions, she permitted the defendant to have sexual intercourse with her, and that, as a result, a child was born to her on December 23d following. She was about 14 years of age at the time her child was born and the defendant was about 19 years of age at that time. The parties are "negroes.

On April 13, 1935, Walter Bledsoe, father of Ollie…