McWhorter v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Potter County of statutory rape, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of thirty years.

From the record we learn that appellant -married the mother of prosecutrix a few years prior to the date of the occurrence made the subject of the instant charge. Some months prior to the date of said alleged rape appellant’s wife died. From that date appellant lived with his step-children until after the date of the said charge, prosecutrix being taken by her own father and kept by him after the bringing of…