Legal Opinion

Westfaul v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama

Decided October 1, 1975No. 1 Div. 609PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

TYSON, Judge.

The indictment charged the appellant, Calvert Emile Westfaul, with the indecent molestation of Cherie McLendon, a female child under sixteen years of age. The jury’s verdict found the appellant “guilty of indecent molestation, as charged in the indictment,” and the trial court then set sentence at three years imprisonment in the penitentiary.

Jackie Bailey testified that she was seven years old and in the second grade. She knew appellant as “Pee-Wee,” and had been to his “trailer house.” During the summer of 1974, she, her little sister, Gretchen, Cherin McLendon, and Desiree…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. McCoy v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1936
  2. Hardie v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1953
  3. Jones v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1941

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Perry v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1984
  2. Holloman v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1977
  3. Westfaul v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1975
  4. Champion v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1979
  5. Perry v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1984

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