Hensley v. State

BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction under Art. 535d, Vernon’s Ann.P.C. is for fondling a child; the punishment, fifteen years.

The testimony of the state reveals that the appellant had married the mother of the prosecutrix about four years before the trial of this case.

The prosecutrix testified that she was eleven years of age on the day of the trial; that on the night of October 10, while asleep in bed with her sister, she was awakened by the appellant when he put his hand on her private parts ; that she immediately went to get her mother and the appellant went into another room; that when…