STOKES v. STATE

No. 29120.

305 S.W.2d 779 (1957)

Ferris Leamon STOKES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 26, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Spiller, Houston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Thomas D. White and Benjamin Woodall, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for statutory rape; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for 20 years.

The indictment charges the rape of the prosecutrix, a female under the age of 15 years, on or about the 7th day of June, 1956.

The state's testimony shows that the prosecutrix was 13 years of age at the time of trial; appellant was her step-father, her mother having married appellant in the year 1950, since which time they had resided...

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