Bayless v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is rape; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of twenty-five years.

The appellant, a youth seventeen years of age, had carnal iknowledge of the prosecutrix. She testified that the appellant and another forced her to yield. The circumstances show and the jury found that she voluntarily submitted. There was a sharp conflict touching the age of the prosecutrix. It is made clear that she was not as much as eighteen years» of age. The controversy was whether she was under fifteen years. A statement of the evidence upon this issue is…