Skinner v. State

McDonald, judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, fifteen years in the penitentiary.

The appellant took the prosecutrix, a girl twelve years of age, out on several occasions to teach her to drive. She testified that on the third outing, on January 1, 1962, he took her near Lake Worth, stopped, produced a pistol, and forced her to go into a pasture, where he then had intercourse with her against her will. The girl testified to actual penetration, though neither the doctor who examined her nor her mother could positively verify this. The doctor did testify that the hymen was not intact but…