Herring v. State

Decided April 2, 1918

Alabama Court of Appeals · decided 1918-04-02

B. Foster, Judge. James Lee Herring was convicted of having carnal knowledge of a girl between the ages of 12 and 16, and he appeals.

Relies on Mitchell v. State · Dorough v. State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Affirmed · Decided 1918-04-02

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Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1959

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BROWN, P. J.

¶1 The defendant was convicted of the offense denounced by section 7700 of the Code of 1907 as amended by act approved March 17, 1915 (Acts 1915, p. 187), and as a punishment for the offense was sentenced to a term of 2 years in the penitentiary.

¶2 The appeal is on the record without a bill of exceptions; and, as we have repeatedly held the court will not review the trial court on the refusal of charges requested by the defendant, in the absence of a hill of exceptions setting out the evidence or some of its tendencies. Mitchell v. State, 14 Ala. App. 104, 71 South. 982; Dorough v. State, 14 Ala. App. 110, 72 South. 208.

¶3 The proceedings in the ease appearing of record here are, in all tilings, regular and the judgment and sentence will be affirmed.

¶4 Affirmed.