Hale v. State

300 S.W.2d 75 (1957)

Robert HALE, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 28868.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 6, 1957.

Fred Bruner, Dallas, Enoch Fletcher, Grand Saline, for appellant.

Joe Tunnell, Criminal Dist. Atty., Canton, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is assault with intent to rape; the punishment, ten years.

The 49-year old appellant and his family resided near the home of the 6-year old prosecutrix in a rural section of Van Zandt County.

According to the prosecutrix' parents, on the night in question the…