Petty v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Ellis County of the offense of rape upon a girl under the age of consent and given five years in the penitentiary.

There was abundant evidence showing numerous occasions on which the appellant met the little girl in question, who was but fourteen years of age, and took her out riding in his car. Appellant was a married man. One witness testified positively to seeing an act of intercourse between appellant and prosecutrix. Two physicians who examined the child said that her private parts were enlarged so as that she could easily…