Kennedy v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Statutory rape is the offense; the punishment, five years in the State penitentiary.

Prosecutrix was fourteen years of age. She testified to an act of sexual intercourse with appellant, occurring at night at a tourist camp in Corpus Christi. A younger sister, who was present, testified to facts corroborating the prosecutrix.

A doctor examined prosecutrix about two months thereafter, and, as a result, was able to express the opinion that, at some time prior thereto, prosecutrix had engaged in an act of intercourse with a male person.

The circumstances under which the act was…