Swafford v. State

OPINION

O’BRIEN, Judge.

This is an appeal from judgment on a jury verdict in the Criminal Court of Rhea County, finding defendant guilty of unlawful carnal knowledge of a female under twelve years of age. Sentence was fixed at twenty years in the penitentiary.

By Assignment No. 1 it is contended the testimony preponderates in favor of the innocence against the verdict of guilt found by the jury; and by No. 7 it is said there was not any reliable testimony introduced sufficient to convict defendant.

The evidence in this case came through the unequivocal testimony of the two minor children of the…