O'NEAL v. State

OPINION

DICE, Judge.

The appellant and Walter Joe Alexander and Benjamin Bell were jointly indicted for the offense of statutory rape.

Upon the granting of a severance, appellant was separately tried and convicted and his punishment assessed at life imprisonment.

Trial was prior to January 1, 1966, under the 1925 Code of Criminal Procedure.

The state’s testimony shows that on the night in question the prosecutrix, then seventeen years of age, had a date with a young man — whom she subsequently married — prior to the date of trial. During the evening the couple drove to a place along White Oak…