Taylor v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Clay. Tried below before the Hon. B. F. Williams. The indictment in this case charged the appellant with the rape of Jane Taylor, who is shown by the evidence to be his own daughter, in Clay county/Texas, on the twenty-seventh day of December, 1885. His trial resulted in his conviction of assault with intent to rape, and he was awarded a term of seven years in the penitentiary. Tom Taylor was the first witness for the State.
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Appeal from the District Court of Clay. Tried below before the Hon. B. F. Williams. The indictment in this case charged the appellant with the rape of Jane Taylor, who is shown by the evidence to be his own daughter, in Clay county/Texas, on the twenty-seventh day of December, 1885. His trial resulted in his conviction of assault with intent to rape, and he was awarded a term of seven years in the penitentiary. Tom Taylor was the first witness for the State. His testimony was too disconnected to be paraphrazed intelligibly, and is therefore set out in full, and was as follows: ££I am sixteen…
1Opinion of the Court
White, Presiding Judge.
This appeal is from a judgment of conviction for assault, with intent to commit rape, the punishment being seven years in the penitentiary. The injured party was the daughter of appellant, and the conviction rests almost exclusively upon her uncorroborated testimony. According to her statements as a witness, appellant had ravished her first some five years prior to the date of the crime for which he was being tried, and she deposed that his crime had been repeatedly perpetrated upon her in the interval between the first and last offense. After the testimony at the trial…
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