SKINNER v. STATE

6 Div. 276.

60 So.2d 363 (1952)

SKINNER v. STATE.

Court of Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied March 13, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. K. Selman and Thomas Leon Beaird, Jasper, for appellant.

Si Garrett, Atty. Gen., and Thos. M. Galloway, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


HARWOOD, Judge.

This appellant has been convicted of the crime of incest growing out of his alleged sexual relations with his young daughter.

The State's case must rest upon the testimony of the daughter because of the lack of any corroborating support for her testimony.

If the girl was under the age of consent at the time of the offense, (sixteen years of age), no corroboration of her testimony is necessary. Brown v. State, 21 Ala.App. 371, 108 So...

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