Hodges v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction of rape, punishment five years in the penitentiary.

Appellant was charged with statutory rape upon a girl over the age of fifteen years and under that of eighteen. The facts introduced on behalf of the state and relied upon seem ample to justify the jury in concluding appellant guilty: Appellant’s bills of exception Nos. 1 and 9 respectively complain that the prosecutrix was allowed to say that her father was dead, and that the mother of prosecutrix testified that she was a widow. The only objection offered to this was that it was immaterial and irrelevant. Such…