Lassere v. State

OPINION DOUGLAS, Judge.

The conviction is for statutory rape of a fourteen-year-old girl; the punishment, forty years.

The record reflects that a group of mostly teenagers was having a beer and marihuana party in a wooded area off Babcock Road in San Antonio when the rape occurred. According to the testimony of Leslie Ann Perry, the appellant had indicated a desire to have sexual intercourse with the prosecutrix and had asked the Perry girl to start a fight with and take the clothes off the prosecutrix. While the group was at the party or picnic, appellant saw the prosecutrix walk by and nudged…