Wilson v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

The offense is incest; punishment, three years in the penitentiary.

Appellant was the stepfather of fifteen-year-old prosecutrix, having married her mother in 1938. They resided at Ballinger, Texas.

Appellant and his son, Alfred, obtained work at Kermit, in Winkler’ County. As a consequence, they went there and lived in a one-room trailer house. Prosecutrix went along with them to do the housework and cooking. The wife and other children remained at Ballinger. Appellant and his son slept on the one bed in the room; prosecutrix slept on a “pallet” on the floor.

Appellant was…