Davison v. State

OPINION

ONION, Presiding Judge.

This appeal is taken from a conviction for statutory rape. A jury having found appellant to be guilty of this offense, his punishment was assessed by the court at twenty-five (25) years’ confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections.

The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged. Suffice it to say the record reflects that appellant raped the 14 year old prosecutrix on December 30, 1970, at her home in Dallas County while he was there working as a plumber.

Appellant, who did not testify at the guilt-innocence stage of the trial, complains in his first…