Mabry v. State

HARWOOD, Presiding Judge. .

This appellant has been adjudged guilty of mayhem, an offense denounced by Section 359, Title 14, Code of Alabama 1940. Punishment was fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of twenty years, the maximum permissible under said section.

The victim of the mayhem was Judge Edward Aaron, who suffered castration.

The evidence presented below ' depicts conduct shocking in its foulness, viciousness, and savage brutality.

Without dispute the evidence shows that late on the afternoon of 2 September 1957, a group gathered in the yard of appellant’s home. Included in…