Rodgers v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
1Opinion of the Court
*661CATES, Judge.
Rodgers appeals from a judgment on verdict. He was convicted of carnal knowl•edge of a girl over twelve and under sixteen years of age, his own daughter. Code 1940, T. 14, § 399. He was sentenced to ten years imprisonment.
There was sufficient evidence to support the verdict, first, in the girl’s testimony and, second, in a confession made by Rodgers to L. V. Harwell, an officer, and Mrs. Lorene Carter, a clerk, both of the Mobile City Police Department.
Here, we are urged to reverse on four propositions:
"A witness who does not know the difference between the truth and a lie is not…
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