Aguillar v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

This is a conviction for the offense of rape upon a female under the age of eighteen years; the punishment, ten years in the penitentiary.

The prosecutrix, twelve years of age at the time the offense was alleged to have been committed, identified appellant as having had sexual intercourse with her, as a result of which she became pregnant.

Appellant denied the act and insisted that he was not and could not have been the cause of prosecutrix’ pregnancy.

Appellant insists that the trial court erred in overruling his second motion for a continuance because of the absence and for the…