Valdez v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is statutory rape; the punishment, five years.

Prosecutrix testified that she was 16 years old on the day charged in the indictment; that she had known appellant since he had worked with her sister at a cleaning establishment; that she had been engaged to baby-sit by a Mrs. Boone; that Mrs. Boone returned home about midnight and told her that appellant was outside- in the car and would take her home. Prosecutrix testified that when she got in the car appellant drove several miles out in the country; stopped the car; threw her on the ground; had intercourse with her…