84 Tex. Crim. 552 - Doherty v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““The state had failed to make a case, and, whether this testimony be legitimate or not, it could be of no service to the state to prove a statement made by the girl by way of impeachment when she had directly sworn that no intercourse occurred. The state’s whole case was made by this character of testimony in the main. There were some circumstances detailed here and there that would throw suspicion upon the relations of appellant and his stepdaughter; but where the intercourse is positively denied by the prosecutrix, and there is no evidence, except remote circumstances that might tend to show a case of impeachment, it will not form the basis of a conviction. The jury may have believed the defendant guilty, but there must be proof of that fact.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wall v. State