Tindall v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for incest; punishment, eight years in the penitentiary.

Appellant was convicted for incest with his sixteen year old daughter, who was the state’s only witness. Her mother was dead, and she was the oldest child, there being several younger children. Appellant introduced such of his younger children as appeared old enough to testify, and they agreed in their statements that they had never observed anything out of the way between him and prosecutrix. He also introduced a number of his neighbors who testified to his good reputation, and some evidence was introduced…