Rowan v. State

McCORD, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for rape on a female under the age of consent with a penalty of seventeen years confinement in the penitentiary.

There seems to be no issue made on the question that appellant had had intercourse" with the prosecutrix. The contention of appellant in the court below was that the prosecutrix was over the ago of consent. It was attempted on the part of the State to show that the prosecutrix was born in Juljq 1893. The alleged rape was committed in April, 1907. The appellant’s contention in the court below was that the prosecutrix was born in. the…