Pierce v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of rape and his punishment assessed at seven years in the penitentiary.

The indictment charges rape in three counts: One on a girl under eighteen years of age, one on the same girl under fifteen years of age, and the other by force, threats and fraud. The facts show prosecutrix was the daughter of defendant and under fifteen years of age. The State’s case is that appellant had intercourse with his daughter in a room adjoining that occupied by his wife and son; that he had intercourse with her about the time the family were retiring, and in the…