Jones v. State

In order to accept prosecutrix’ testimony completely and reject without consideration the testimony of appellant and his witnesses, one must ignore what to me is a compelling circumstance.

Prosecutrix’ father was a tenant farmer working on the halves for the appellant. A short while before the alleged assault appellant and prosecutrix’ mother had had a misunderstanding over financial matters. Prosecutrix claims the indecent proposal was made on Thursday afternoon. And yet she made no report of it until Sunday. There was a telephone next door; she did not use it. Her husband came home Thursday…