VAVRA v. STATE

No. 32650.

343 S.W.2d 709 (1961)

Richard Joseph VAVRA, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied March 1, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Billings, Dallas, Charles William Tessmer (on appeal), Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Criminal Dist. Atty., Robert E. Lyle, Dan Stansbury, Phil Burleson, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


BELCHER, Commissioner.

This is a conviction upon a plea of guilty before a jury for the offense of fondling the sexual parts of a boy under the age of fourteen years; the punishment, twenty years.

The prosecuting witness, an eleven year old boy, testified that on April 20, 1959, he along with his younger brother and another boy, at appellant's request went to appellant's apartment and that while there, appellant fondled his sexual parts, committed an act of...

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