Hill v. State

Pope, Judge.

J. I. Hill appeals his conviction of statutory rape of his nine-year-old daughter.

1. Appellant contends that the trial court erred in denying his motion for directed verdict of acquittal because the victim’s testimony was not corroborated. The evidence showed that the victim’s initial outcry was made to her aunt on Christmas Eve, 1978. According to the victim, she was scared to go home because appellant, her father, made her take off her clothes and go to bed with him. He had had sexual intercourse with her “about 20 times,” the most recent of which had occurred approximately one…