Rodriguez v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal' from the District Court of Bexar. Tried below befot e the Honorable S. G. Tayloe. Appeal from a conviction of incest; penalty, five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.
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Appeal' from the District Court of Bexar. Tried below befot e the Honorable S. G. Tayloe. Appeal from a conviction of incest; penalty, five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case. On question of accomplice testimony: Stewart v. State, 32 S. W. Rep., 766; Gillispie v. State, 93 id., 556; Bohannon v. State, 204 id., 1165. On question of other acts of sexual intercourse: Hollingsworth v. State, 189 S. W. Rep., 488; Lawrence v. State, 219 id., 460; Wingo v. State, 229 id., 859, and cases cited in opinion. On question of child witness: Murphy v. State, 35 S. W. Rep.,…
1Opinion of the Court
LATTIMORE, Judge.
Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Bexar County of incest, and his punishment fixed at five years in the penitentiary.
The parties involved were Mexicans. The prosecutrix was the daughter of appellant.
Appellant’s motion to quash the indictment was correctly overruled. Said indictment was in approved form and charged that appellant on a certain date in Bexar County carnally knew Natalia Rodriguez, she being then and there his daughter.
The date of the offense charged was November 4, 1918, and that an act of intercourse took place on such date was testified to by…
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