Case ID: sw_215/html/0300-01.html
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Author: {"author": "DAVIDSON, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

■BRADFORD v. STATE.
    (No. 5434.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Oct. 15, 1919.)
    Criminal law <&wkey;511(l) — Evidence of accomplice CORROBORATED SUFFICENTLY.
    In a prosecution for incest, evidence of accomplice held sufficiently corroborated to sustain a conviction.
    Appeal from District Court, Fannin County; Ben H. Denton, Judge.
    John Bradford was convicted of incest, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    E. A. B,erry, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   DAVIDSON, P. J.

Appellant was convicted of incest with his daughter, his punishment being assessed at ten years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

. She testified to the incestuous intercourse covering more than a year. She gave birth to a child which she says was the child of •her father. She is corroborated sufficiently by the testimony of her sister as to the intimacy of her father with the prosecutrix. The corroboration of her sister, the accom-'pliee witness, is circumstantial, but, in view of the whole record, sufficient. Appellant took the stand and denied the matter, ahd stated that prosecutrix told him that Foster Ayers was the father of her child. There are other facts in the ease of a circumstantial nature to the effect that she did not have beaus, associated with no young men or other male friends; that Foster Ayers did not associate with her, and she lived in the house with her father, and after her older sister married took charge of the house as housekeeper ; that her mother had been dead for about seven years. Take the record as a whole, we are of opinion that the accomplice witness is sufficiently corroborated to sustain the verdict of the jury.

The judgment will be affirmed.