Moats v. State

DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is sodomy; the punishment, three years.

The prosecuting witness, a boy sixteen years of age, testified that on the occasion in question he had run away from home and spent three nights with the appellant in a trailer, in Freeport. On the first night, which was on Saturday, the two looked at pictures of girls “that were not fully clothed.” On the second night, after they had gone to bed, the appellant, with consent of the prosecuting witness, committed an oral act of sodomy upon him. The next night the same thing happened.

Following his arrest, appellant made and…