Maney v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for five years.

It was charged in the indictment, in substance, that appellant had carnal knowledge of Alma Bell Walton, a female under the age of eighteen years. It was undisputed that prosecutrix was between seventeen and eighteen years of age. In the charge the court submitted the issue as to whether prosecutrix was of previous chaste character.

Prosecutrix testified, in substance, as follows: She had known appellant for approximately three months. On the occasion of the transaction resulting in the…