Armstrong v. State

Conviction is for statutory rape upon Leona Dotson, punishment being assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for life.

Appellant is a man 62 years of age. For many years he had lived with the Dotson family practically as a member thereof. Leona Dotson would not have reached her fifteenth birthday until November 25, 1922. She testified that improper relations between her and appellant began about the 1st of November, 1920, and continued for some months; that in January, 1921, as the result of these relations with him, she became pregnant and gave birth to a child in October, 1921. She was…