Lee v. State

DICE, Judge.

The conviction is for statutory rape; the punishment, life imprisonment.

The state’s testimony shows that the prosecutrix was 14 years of age on the date of the alleged offense and was the appellant’s stepdaughter. Appellant’ was married to the prosectrix’ mother, Mrs. Eva Lee, in the month of December, 1951, and after the marriage lived with his wife and the prosecutrix and her younger sister, Frances, at their home in the city of Hous*556ton. In the latter part of August, 1957, prosecutrix’ mother became ill with tuberculosis and went to a hospital in Houston and thereafter on…