Bice v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Grayson. Tried helow before Hon. Don A. Bliss. Appeal from a conviction for rape of a female under the age of fifteen years; penalty, five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of rape, and given five years in the penitentiary, and prosecutes this appeal. The indictment charges that the prosecutrix, Minnie Simmons, alias Minnie Cannon, was a female under the age of 15 years, and that the defendant made an assault upon her, and did then and there ravish and have carnal knowledge of the said Minnie Simmons, alias Minnie Cannon, against the peace and dignity of the State. As to her age, the prosecutrix testified that she was under 15 years of age in the fall of. 1895, at the time of the alleged rape; that she was 14 years old in…
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