Johnson v. State

OPINION

ONION, Judge.

The offense is statutory rape; the punishment, life.

In his first three grounds of error appellant vigorously challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction.

The record reflects that about 9 p. m. on December 23, 1967, the appellant and his wife took the 13 year old prosecutrix for a ride in their automobile, purportedly to get a coke. After stopping at a tavern where the prosecutrix had a soft drink and the appellant and his wife a beer, the threesome proceeded to an isolated spot on Berry Road in Dallas County where appellant’s wife parked the…