Case ID: tex-crim_49/html/0165-01.html
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Author: {"author": "BROOKS, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Geo. H. Bradshaw v. The State.
    No. 3297.
    Decided December 20, 1905.
    Rape—Corpus Delicti—Confession.
    On trial for rape of a child under the age of 15 years, where the corpus delicti was proven, a confession of the defendant is sufficient to sustain a conviction; especially where other evidence supports the confession.
    Appeal from the District Court of Williamson. Tried below before Hon. V. L. Brooks.
    Appeal from a conviction of rape; penalty, five years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
    The opinion states the case.
    
      H. N. Groves & D. S'. ChessTier, for appellant.
    
      Howard Martin, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.
   BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted for rape, upon a child under the age of 15 years, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of five years.

He confessed to the crime, in the presence of several parties. The evidence shows that proscutrix gave birth to a child. The testimony for the State shows that at the time of the rape prosecutrix was 14 years of age. We have heretofore held that where the corpus delicti is proven, a confession is of sufficient cogency to connect the party making the confession with the murder; and therefore sufficient evidence to support the conviction. Gallegos v. State, 12 Texas Ct. Rep., 792; Attaway v. State, 35 Texas Crim. Rep., 403. We think the evidence, in addition to the above, shows a certain character of association of prosecutrix with defendant. Upon one occasion her mother on returning home, found appellant talking to prosecutrix.

[Motion for rehearing overruled without written opinion.—Reporter.]

The record contains various bills of exceptions, but under the qualifications and statements of the court, we do not think any of them present any error requiring a reversal, or that require us to review them. Ho error appearing in the record, the judgment is affirmed.

Affirmed.