Skinner v. State

L, A. Smith, Sr., J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Appellant was convicted in the Lauderdale County Circuit Court of incestuous relations with his fifteen year old daughter, and sentenced to a term of ten years in the penitentiary, from which he appeals. It is not neces sary to go into the disgusting and revolting details of the facts revealed in the evidence or to expatiate upon the •depravity of a miscreant who would despoil his own little daughter; but it is necessary that we preserve changeless the principles of the law governing the issues in this case, as established in our…