Cochran v. State

DICE, Judge.

The conviction is for assault with intent to rape; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for a term of fifty years.

The prosecutrix was a young girl six years of age at the time of the alleged offense and seven years old at the time of the trial.

*254The appellant, who was married and forty years of age, was the uncle of the prosecutrix, having married her father’s sister.

It is shown that the alleged offense was committed on an occasion when appellant and his wife made a visit to the home of the prosecutrix’ parents in the city of Odessa.

The seven-year-old prosecutrix…