Bedgood v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Appellant was convicted under the second count of an indictment charging him with rape of a female under the age of eighteen years and his punishment was assessed at five years imprisonment in the state penitentiary.

Prosecutrix was seventeen years old at the time of the commission of the offense. Appellant was a Singer Sewing Machine agent and testified that on his first visit to see Miss Hammett, shortly after his introduction to her, that she was very affectionate in her attitude toward him and let him embrace her; that she leaned on his shoulder and that she agreed to stop…