Legal Opinion

Jones v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided May 8, 1963No. 35779Published

1Opinion of the Court

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is fondling; the punishment, 5 years.

The father and mother of the injured child testified that because they were both ill they permitted their four-year old daughter to go to Clifton for a few days to stay with the child’s maternal grandmother, Mrs. Dessie Dodson, and her daughter, Billie Jean Olson. When the father went to get the girl, he found her in the front room alone with appellant. Upon the child’s return to her home in Waco, her mother, who was a graduate nurse, observed that the child’s vagina was swollen to twice its normal size and to such an extent…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Hignett v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1960
  2. Virginia Pauline Board v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1959

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