Lamar v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for five years.

Prosecutrix, Bertha Lee Hilley, was thirteen years of age at the time of the alleged assault, which, according to her testimony, occurred on the 20th of July, 1940. It was her version that she and appellant had been together on numerous occasions, and that on the date heretofore mentioned appellant had carried her in his automobile to a pasture about four o’clock in the afternoon. At this juncture we quote from the testimony of prosecutrix as follows:

“The defendant put his hands on me, he…