Gephart v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is rape of a female under the age of eighteen years; the punishment, death.

The prosecutrix testified that she was eight years old; that she had met appellant, a school teacher, at the city playground during the summer preceding the day charged in the indictment; that, on the Saturday following Thanksgiving in 1949, appellant had come to her parents’ home with an eight or nine-year old girl, who he claimed was his niece, gotten her sister, aged nine, and her brother, aged ten, and her and carried them all to an apartment on Leon Street in the city of Austin.

Prosecutr…