Perrett v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was prosecuted for rape on his own daughter, and his punishment assessed at fifty years confinement in the penitentiary.

Appellant objected to Joe McKinney, a boy seven years old, being permitted to testify. We have carefully read the voir dire examination of this boy, and are of the opinion the court did not err in permitting him to testify.

Neither was there error in permitting the witness Grace Perrett to be impeached by the testimony she gave before the grand jury. When this witness had testified in behalf of appellant to an entirely different state of facts to what…