Spence v. State
Spence v. State
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The appellant was indicted, tried, and convicted of incest, or having carnal knowledge of his stepdaughter, Beulah Neighbors, a young girl between twelve and thirteen years of age. Sections 756 and 2550, Hemingway’s Code; sections 1031 and 3243, Code of 1906. 1-Ie was sentenced to serve a term of ten years in the state penitentiary, from which judgment this appeal is here prosecuted.
It is contended by the appellant that the facts are insufficient to sustain a conviction. A peremptory instruction to find him not guilty was refused in the circuit court. It therefore becomes necessary to briefly state the material facts. The girl, Beulah Neighbors, was the daughter of
Certain parts of the argument of the district attorney are assigned as error. It is unnecessary to pass upon the sufficiency of the exceptions to this argument. The only objection made to the argument, by counsel for appellant, was sustained by the court; If this argument were improper, it Avas not of such a character that the sustaining of the objection Avas not sufficient to prevent the jury from being misled.
It is also assigned as error that the circuit judge erred in allowing the report of the grand jury to be read in the presence of some of the jurors in this case. There was no-objection, hoAvever, made at the time to the reading of this
These are the only assignments of error argued in the brief of counsel. We have, however, most carefully examined those assignments not argued, and given the entire record the most careful scrutiny. We find no reversible error therein.
The judgment of the lower court is affirmed.
Affirmed.
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