Turner v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was prosecuted and convicted of rape, find his punishment assessed at five years confinement in the penitentiary.

Gusta Poe, a ten-year-old girl, testified to facts showing that she had been raped by appellant, detailing all the circumstances. On cross-examination the appellant sought to show by this witness that her father was trying to make appellant leave the country, and all through the record an effort is made by appellant to show that the prosecution-is a frame-up, instigated by the girl’s father to get appellant off his land and out of the country. The State at…