Stanfield v. State

Appellant was convicted of the offense of rape and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the State Penitentiary for life.

Only two questions are presented for review. One is the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain appellant's conviction; the other relates to the cross-examination of his wife, relative to matters not inquired about on her examination-in-chief. We will undertake to dispose of these questions in their numerical order.

The prosecutrix, who was appellant's daughter, was a young girl of 13 years of age at the time of the commission of the offense. She testified that…