Henry v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

— Conviction is for statutory rape, punishment being 10 years in the penitentiary.

The offense is alleged to have been committed upon Juanita Looney in February, 1936. Prosecutrix testified to three acts of intercourse with appellant, the first being the latter part of March, 1936, and two subsequent acts, all occurring in appellant’s room at his boarding house. The State elected to prosecute on the act in March. Prosecutrix made some pretense that she was forced by appellant to go to his room on this occasion, and that she made some resistance to his advances, and that her…