Tanner v. State

At the fall term, 1927, the grand jury of Escambia county, Alabama, returned an indictment against petitioner, charging him with the offense of carnally knowing, or abusing in the attempt to carnally know, one Mozella Lamberth, a girl over 12 and under 16 years of age. The defendant was, at a subsequent term of court, and on, to wit, tbe 23d day of October, 1928, duly placed on trial for said offense, and the jury, upon his pica of not guilty, returned a verdict as follows: “We, the jury, find the defendant guilty, as charged in the indictment.” No punishment was included in the jury’s…