Legal Opinion

Tomczack v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided March 10, 1926No. 9979Published

The opinion states the case. On the sufficiency of the corroboration of the prosecutrix, the State cites Wright v. State, 20 S. W. 756; Anderson v. State, 45 S. W. 15; Halbadier v. State, 220 S. W. 85; Klepper v. State, 223 S. W. 486; Rhea v. State, 275 S. W. 1021; Clark v. State, 277 S. W. 690.

1Opinion of the Court

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction in Criminal District Court of Harris County of seduction; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

No brief is on file for appellant. There are no bills of exception in the record. The only question is the sufficiency of the testimony. . There was no controversy over the fact that appellant had intercourse with prosecutrix; in fact, he admitted it on the stand. Prosecutrix was twenty years old, an unmarried woman, and pregnant at the time of trial, which was in October, 1925. She testified that she had been engaged to appellant more than two years, during which…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Halbadier v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1920
  2. Wright v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1892
  3. Rhea v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1925
  4. Anderson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1898
  5. Klepper v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1920

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