Valdez v. State

248 S.W.2d 744 (1952)

VALDEZ

v.

STATE.

No. 25780.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 26, 1952.

Rehearing Denied April 30, 1952.

Second Motion for Rehearing Denied May 28, 1952.

H. O. Metcalfe, Lucius D. Bunton, Marfa, for appellant.

George P. Blackburn, State's Atty., of Austin, for the State.

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is statutory rape; the punishment, five years.

Prosecutrix testified that she was 16 years old on the day charged in the indictment; that she had known appellant since he had worked with her sister at a cleaning establishment; that she had been engaged to baby-sit by a Mrs. Boone;…