Legal Opinion

Brooks v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided March 30, 1949No. 24322Published

1Opinion of the Court

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was charged with aggravated assault and given a penalty of six months in the county jail.

There were but three witnesses. The facts are short and correctly stated as they appear in the state’s brief as follows:

“The prosecutrix, age nine, had been playing with a girl of six, and had on play clothes. They started upsairs to take a bath, and the younger girl went back down to get pajamas, and while on this errand, appellant came out of his room and placed his arm around the prosecutrix, kissed her and told her he liked her, then took her hand and rubbed it over the lower…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Hill v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1897
  2. Rogers v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1899
  3. Knight v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1905
  4. St. John v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1915

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