Happner v. State

BELCHER, Judge.

The conviction is for incest; the punishment, four years.

In July, 1946, when the prosecutrix was three years of age her mother and father were divorced, and her custody was awarded to her mother, who, in the same month and year married her ex-husband’s brother, an uncle of the prosecutrix. The uncle then also became her step-father.

The prosecutrix testified that she lived in the home of her mother and stepfather; that she thought of him as her father and he treated her as his daughter until he began having intercourse with her when she was about eleven years of age; and that he…