Fitzpatrick v. State

This appeal was perfected by Merle Fitzpatrick, defendant below, from a conviction for incest committed upon his 15-year-old daughter, Jeannine. The jury fixed the punishment of the defendant by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary at McAlester, for a period of 10 years and the judgment and sentence of the district court of Logan county was in accord therewith.

The only question raised by the appeal is that the evidence is insufficient to support the conviction.

The state's case is based primarily, as it would naturally be in a case of this kind, upon the testimony of the defendant's…