Gandy v. State

HARRIS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama, of carnal knowledge of a girl over the age of twelve and under the age of sixteen years and his punishment fixed at ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The jury gave him the maximum sentence for this offense.

It will serve no useful purpose to memorialize the ugly and sordid details of the two-volume record in this case in the permanent archives of this court. Suffice it to say that the facts are offensive and revolting.

It would not be inaccurate to say that appellant was possessed of an…