Wadkins v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The following statement taken from appellant’s brief is substantially correct: The prosecutrix, Eittie Wadkins, testified that in November, 1908, appellant engaged with her in a carnal act down on the branch near his home. She made out a case of rape by fear or force. The prosecutrix was nineteen years of age, and it was admitted that she was a bastard, that is, that appellant was never married to her mother. She was the youngest of four bastard children.
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The following statement taken from appellant’s brief is substantially correct: The prosecutrix, Eittie Wadkins, testified that in November, 1908, appellant engaged with her in a carnal act down on the branch near his home. She made out a case of rape by fear or force. The prosecutrix was nineteen years of age, and it was admitted that she was a bastard, that is, that appellant was never married to her mother. She was the youngest of four bastard children. Martha Hervey, Bass Tolivar and John Hervey, all negro witnesses, testified substantially that they had heard appellant claim prosecutrix…
1Opinion of the Court
RAMSEY, Judge.
By indictment filed in . the District Court of Uavarro County appellant was charged with the offense of rape committed upon one Rittie Wadkins, and, in a separate count, that appellant had carnal intercourse with said Rittie Wadkins, she being then and there his daughter. Upon a trial had in said court on the 12th day of April, 1909, appellant was convicted of the offense of incest, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of five years.
For the most part the case was well tried, and few grounds set out in appellant’s motion for a new trial, or…
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