Piercy v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

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

Prosecutrix, Ella Piercy, is the daughter of appellant. At the time of the alleged assault she was about twenty years of age. According to her testimony, she had been ill with malarial fever, having been confined to her bed at intervals for about two months. At 6 p. m., June 8, 1934, appellant came to her room where she was lying in bed and had sexual intercourse with her. Her mother, a nineteen-year-old sister and two brothers, one of whom was fifteen years of age and the other twelve,…