Ballew v. State

OPINION

WALKER, Presiding Judge.

The defendant, Gilbert T. Ballew, was convicted of incest in Weakley County and sentenced to S to 21 years in the penitentiary. From this sentence he appeals in error to this court.

Wanda Faye Ballew McKinney, the defendant’s 14-year-old married daughter, testified that he had begun sexual relations with her when she was nine or ten years old and that she could not count the numerous occasions of illicit relations since that time. She contended he had threatened to beat her. She and an aunt testified that at age 13 she went to a doctor to see if she was pregnant…