Stokes v. State

DICE, Judge.

The conviction is for statutory rape; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for 20 years.

The indictment charges the rape of the prosecutrix, a female under the age of 15 years, on or about the 7th day of June, 1956.

The state’s testimony shows that the prosecutrix was 13 years of age at the time of trial; appellant was her step-father, her mother having married appellant in the year 1950, since which time they had resided in various places in Texas and other states.

Prosecutrix testified that appellant had numerous acts of intercourse with her beginning about three years…