Turner v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is assault with intent to rape a female under 18 years of age; the punishment, 15 years.

The sole question for our review herein is the sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction.

*78Appellant was the father of the prosecuting witness, who was 14 years old on the date of the commission of the alleged offense.

On the question of intent, the state was permitted, and properly so, to prove appellant’s abnormal conduct toward his daughter covering a period of time prior to the assault in question. As a part of such conduct, prosecutrix related that approximately a…