Bates v. State

DICE, Judge.

The conviction is for statutory rape; the punishment, life imprisonment.

The indictment filed on the 5th day of October, 1956, charged that the offense was committed on or about the 20th day of June, 1956.

The prosecutrix, 13 years of ag-e at the time of the trial, testified to numerous acts of sexual intercourse with the appellant, her step-father, during a period of time while she resided in his home in the city of Mexia, Limestone County, Texas, with her mother and sister.

She testified that the first act occurred in May, 1954, at night in the middle apartment of their home and…