Gephart v. State

249 S.W.2d 612 (1952)

GEPHART

v.

STATE.

No. 25462.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 27, 1952.

Rehearing Denied May 21, 1952.

Second Motion for Rehearing Denied June 18, 1952.

Hobart Huson, Jr., San Antonio, for appellant.

Bob Long, Dist. Atty., Thomas D. Blackwell, Asst. Dist. Atty., Austin, George P. Blackburn, State's Atty., of Austin, for the State.

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is rape of a female under the age of eighteen years; the punishment, death.

The prosecutrix testified that she was eight years old; that she had met appellant, a school teacher, at the city playground during the…