Harris v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

On December 3, 1910, appellant was indicted for incest with his sister, Janie Harris, alleged to have occurred on or about January 15, 1910. He was tried January 12, 1911, convicted and his punishment fixed at two years in the penitiary.

The proof shows that W. C. Harris, sixty-seven years old, for several years prior to the commission of this offense, lived on a farm .in Wise County with his unmarried brother, fifty-three years old, and his four children—three sons, Ira, age twenty-three; Luden, age twenty-one; Carl, the appellant, age nineteen, and his daughter, Janie,…