Hatton v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

The offense is statutory rape, punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of five years.

The subject of the alleged rape is Beatrice- McCollough, a negro girl. She testified that in July, 1926, she was raped by the appellant by force. She did not disclose the rape until some time in October following. At that time she had syphilis in a stage advanced to a degree that, according to the doctors who testified, it was of at least six months’ duration. According to her testimony and that of her mother and father, her age at the date of the alleged offense was…