Thomas v. State

TYSON, Judge.

Lyndon Thomas was indicted for the carnal knowledge of Nita Thomas, a girl under the age of twelve years. The jury found the appellant “guilty of carnal knowledge, as charged in the indictment.” The trial court then fixed sentence at thirty years imprisonment in the penitentiary.

We do not treat the evidence in this cause except to observe that the appellant’s two daughters and his wife, each, described a Sunday morning in June, 1977, when the appellant attempted to carnally know his daughter, Nisa Thomas, as well as his still younger daughter, Nita Thomas. The wife described…