Benjamin v. State

GRAVES, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the indecent fondling of a minor and was by the jury assessed a penalty of seven years in the state penitentiary.

The testimony shows that two minor boys, both thirteen years of age, were present in the room of the appellant; that he eventually got each one of them to take off his clothing and lie down on the bed in such room; that appellant went into the bath room, possessed himself of some vaseline, came back and placed some of it on the private organs of Jimmy Melvin Turner and then masturbated him. The appellant was arrested by a peace…