Green v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Appellant is under conviction for rape, his • punishmept having been assessed at ten years in the penitentiary.

The parties are all negroes. Prosecutrix is a girl seventeen years of age. Appellant had married her mother about four years prior to the date of the alleged offense. The State relied solely upon proseen trix to make out its base and therefore upon her story this conviction must stand or fall. Her testimony follows:

“At the time that this occurred my mother had gone to work. My two little sisters were at the Catholic Church. It happened early in the morning, about six…