Vickers v. State

BERRY, Judge.

The offense is statutory rape and the punishment is 15 years in the penitentiary.

The prosecutrix was about nine years old at the time of the alleged offense and was about 11 years old at the time of the trial. She was the stepdaughter of the appellant. The question most seriously presented by appellant is as to the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict. Prosecutrix testified among other things to the following:

"If I tell you whether or not my stepfather and myself left the house together and went off anywhere that evening, will you not let him kill me? He said he…