Dodson v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is rape; penalty assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for fifteen years.

Mrs. Ray Griffith, mother of the prosecutrix, Hattie Ray Griffith, had an entertainment. Appellant and his family lived nearby and were at the Griffith home. Mrs. Griffith sent appellant to his home for a dipper. According to Hattie Ray Griffith, a little girl between eleven and twelve years of age, she met appellant while playing and accompanied him to his home on the occasion mentioned. Her testimony touching what occurred is as follows: “And he got the dipper and put it on the…