Thomas v. State

DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is under Art. 535d, Vernon’s Ann.P.C., for fondling; the punishment, twenty years.

The prosecutrix, seven years of age, testified that on the day in question she lived with her mother and stepfather, the appellant; that in the early morning appellant came into the room where she was sleeping with her younger sister and took her into another room, where he put a towel under her and took off her panties; that appellant then proceeded to put some vaseline on her privates with his hands; that appellant tickled her, and hit her when she began to cry; that she went…