Legal Opinion

Williams v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided January 24, 1973No. 45669PublishedCited by 15 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is statutory rape; the punishment is fifteen (15) years.

Prosecutrix is the fourteen year old natural daughter of appellant and at the time involved lived with appellant, his sister and a brother.

Appellant’s sole ground of error complains that prosecutrix was permitted to tell the jury, in addition to the act committed by appellant on the day charged in the indictment, that appellant had prior thereto committed “around fifteen” similar acts upon her. It is his contention that these additional acts of intercourse constituted extraneous offenses which were not…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Gephart v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1952
  2. Johns v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1951
  3. Hafti v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1967

3Cited by15 opinions

  1. McDonald v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1974
  2. Koffel v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1986
  3. Garcia v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District1982
  4. Pelham v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)1984
  5. Veloz v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)1984

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