Flannery v. State

Graves, Judge.

The offense charged is rape, and the punishment assessed at twenty years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

The appellant, a man twenty-three years old, who had been married twice, was charged with rape upon a child, Drusilla Goode, who was eight years old at the time of the alleged commission of the offense herein charged.

The little girl’s testimony makes out a clear case of an assault upon her person by appellant, and the doctor’s testimony shows that her person had been tampered with at some time near the date of the examinations of her body. One of these examinations also…