Canova v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is rape. The punishment assessed is confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of five years.

The State’s evidence, briefly stated, shows that appellant was an uncle of prosecutrix having married a sister to the mother of the alleged injured female. On the 23rd day of November, 1945, appellant took prosecutrix, who was ill, to a doctor at Bridgeport for treatment. On their way home, he had an act of sexual intercourse with her, she being then only 14 years of age. In July, 1946, she was examined by Dr. Valsek for the purpose of determining whether or not her…