Wilder v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is fondling; the punishment, 5 years.

The 11-year-old girl named in the indictment testified that she got in an automobile with appellant, at his invitation, and drove around for a while; that they passed her home and appellant asked her to “duck down so your friends won’t see you”; that appellant gave her 50 cents; that he drove her out in Memorial Park and while there he put his hand under her dress and his finger in her private part “where I go to the bathroom.”

The child was standing in the rear of the automobile when Patrolman Jones saw them in the park. As he…