Carpenter v. State

EDWARD N. SCRUGGS, Retired Circuit Judge.

The trial court terminated the parental rights of the Carpenters as to their four young children and they appealed.

Since the evidence was directly heard by the trial court, the final judgment is presumed to be factually correct and we are not authorized upon appeal to alter it unless the decision of the trial court was so unsupported by the evidence as to be palpably wrong. King v. State, 451 So.2d 314 (Ala.Civ.App.1984); Fitzgerald v. Jeter, 428 So.2d 84 (Ala.Civ.App.1983). Due to the conflicting state of the evidence, it was strictly a discretionary,…