Wall v. State

OPINION

ONION, Judge.

The offense is Rape; the punishment assessed by the jury, seven and one half (7½) years in the Texas Department of Corrections.

Appellant vigorously attacks the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction.

The record reflects that in the early morning hours of December 9, 1965, T___ W____, the eleven year old daughter of the appellant was the victim of an assault in the darkened bedroom of her unlocked home in the City of Shamrock.

In presenting its case in chief, the State called five witnesses. The testimony of the first two witnesses, a doctor and a laboratory…