Dyer v. State

BETHEA, Judge. —

The appellant was convicted of rape in the District Court of Jones County, and his punishment assessed at five years in the penitentiary.

The prosecutrix was 13 years old at the time of the alleged offense, and she testified that the appellant was a visitor in her home a large portion of the day on which the alleged offense occurred; that about 1:00 o’clock in the afternoon the appellant, Myrtle Flowers and the prosecutrix walked about half a mile south of the prosecutrix’s home to a branch, where the three seated themselves by a tree; that while there one Bill Hill drove up…