Faulkner v. State

DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is statutory rape; the punishment, five years.

The prosecutrix, who was thirteen years of age on the date of the alleged offense, lived with her father and other brothers and sisters at Brookesmith, in Brown County. The appellant, sixty-three years old, was an acquaintance of the family and on numerous occasions came to the home and took the prosecutrix and her brothers and sisters riding in his pickup truck.

The prosecutrix testified that on an occasion in the summer _of 1963 “about the time school started” when she was riding in the front seat of the pickup with…