COMPTON, Justice.
Indicted for committing fornication with his fourteen-year-old daughter, Bobby Joe Cumbee was found guilty by a jury and sentenced in accordance with the verdict to confinement in the penitentiary for a term of five years. The principal issue on appeal is whether defendant's constitutional right to a public trial was abridged.
At the beginning of the trial and before the first witness, the victim, had begun to testify, the prosecutor stated...
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