Schneider v. State

392 S.W.2d 130 (1965)

Arnold Cleo SCHNEIDER, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 38213.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 12, 1965.

Rehearing Denied June 26, 1965.

Thomas D. White, Houston, for appellant.

E. W. Patterson, Dist. Atty., Gonzales, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is statutory rape; the punishment, fifty years.

The prosecutrix, a seventeen-year-old high school senior, lived with her parents in the city of Houston. She testified that on the day in question she left her home around 6:30 p. m. or a quarter to 7, to go…