Case Name: Don Reece MOSLEY, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1961-11-07
Citations: 352 S.W.2d 847
Docket Number: No. 33718
Parties: Don Reece MOSLEY, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 352
Pages: 847–848

Head Matter:
Don Reece MOSLEY, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.
No. 33718.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Nov. 7, 1961.
Rehearing Denied Jan. 3, 1962.
John Benn, Clyde W. Woody (On appeal), Houston, for appellant.
Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., and Thomas C. Dunn, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
BELCHER, Commissioner.
The conviction is for oral sodomy; the punishment, 10 years.
The prosecutrix, age 15, testified that about 6 P.M. on December 23, at appellant's request she accompanied him in an automobile to help him purchase a Christmas gift. He stopped at a drive-in, drank "a beer" and she drank a coke; then he bought some whiskey, and they went to his friend's house where they all drank some. After about an hour they left, and when she asked if they were going home he said "yes", but "let's go ride the ferry", and instead drove to a public park. Upon getting out of the car, he fell, causing his face to bleed. When no cloth could be found to use, she removed and gave him her half-slip. When they re-entered the car, he told her to get in the back seat which she did thinking perhaps it would prevent blood from getting on her clothing. After travelling a short distance, he stopped, got in the back seat and began feeling of her privates. He told her that he would knock her out if she didn't remove her hands so that he could lift her skirt, and during this period he did strike her twice in the face. He then removed her panties and had intercourse with her. She further testified that she screamed and did all she could to prevent him from having inter course with her, and that he threatened to again injure her and she was scared. While they were out of the car, he pushed her to the ground and tried to put his penis in her rectum, which caused her pain; and then made her take his penis into her mouth for about ten minutes. Then she escaped because she was scared, ran and hid for a short time, and located a telephone by which she notified the officers who soon came to her.
On cross-examination, the prosecutrix, when asked if she consented to the act of intercourse, answered: "I guess if you want to put it that way". On re-direct examination, she testified that she didn't understand the question about her consenting to the act, and then said that she did not agree to the act.
An examination of the prosecutrix the next morning by a physician showed a break in the outermost layer of the skin around the rectum.
At the trial, she identified a pair of hose with the foot portion worn out and a half slip with blood on it as those she was wearing on the night of the attack.
Two officers testified that when they saw the prosecutrix in response to her telephone call, she was hysterical, cold and shivering, with her feet and legs scratched, wet, and muddy, and that the foot portion of her hose was worn out. The half-slip was found that night in appellant's car which was stuck in the mud on the back way out of the park.
Appellant did not testify but offered testimony that he' had never been convicted of a felony.
Appellant complains of the court's action in sustaining the objection of the state to a question propounded by the appellant to one of his witnesses. There is no showing of what the answer of the witness would have been, hence no error is shown. 5 Tex.Juris.2d 336, Sec. 202; Soloman v. State, 162 Tex.Cr.R. 374, 285 S.W.2d 755; Richards v. State, 165 Tex.Cr.R. 176, 305 S.W.2d 375.
The requested charge which was refused does not show that an exception was reserved to the ruling of the trial court, therefore the claimed error is not before us for review. Perkinson v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 339 S.W.2d 897; Kogan v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 341 S.W.2d 925; and Stone v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 346 S.W.2d 323.
The evidence is sufficient to sustain the conviction and, no error appearing, the judgment is affirmed.
Opinion approved by the Court.