Legal Opinion
McKinney v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided February 20, 1974No. 47161PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ONION, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was convicted of statutory rape and the jury assessed punishment at sixty (60) years.
At the outset we shall consider appellant’s complaint that the evidence is insufficient to support the conviction. He contends the prosecutrix’s testimony was uncorroborated and she failed to make an outcry for at least one month after the alleged act of sexual intercourse upon which the State relies.
The prosecutrix, M-, was fourteen years of age at the time of the alleged offense and was one of the adopted daughters of the appellant. She related that she had been…
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