Waterman v. State

Appellant was charged by information with the crime of carnal abuse upon the person of one Katie Page, a girl not 14 years of age at the time of the alleged offense. Trial resulted in a verdict of guilty and a judgment of conviction was entered, sentencing him to the penitentiary for one year.

For a reversal of this judgment appellant first contends that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the verdict and judgment — that ‘ ‘ there is no testimony whatever to sustain the conviction of this man, except the testimony of this little girl herself.” And this quoted statement is true. She…