Webb v. State

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

The conviction is for statutory rape. The punishment was assessed by the court at seventy-five years.

The State’s motion to dismiss the appeal will be considered. (This was the same escape discussed in Webb v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 449 S.W.2d 230.) An affidavit dated July 23, 1969 by the sheriff of Eastland County recited that appellant escaped jail on May 27, 1969 and did not voluntarily return within ten days after the escape and that the sheriff did not have any knowledge of his whereabouts. It appears that appellant was arrested in Oklahoma City on the 13th day of…