Garlas v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of seduction, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of four years; hence this appeal.

The facts briefly stated show that appellant was a farmer living in Tom Green County, near Fred Hoenghaus, the father of prosecutrix, a farmer in the same neighborhood. Appellant at the time was a widower with three small children. Prosecutrix, a girl of nineteen years of age, at the time was living in Ballinger, some fifteen or twenty miles distant. Appellant on the day before the alleged seduction, went over to where Hoenghaus was…