Turpin v. State

Pannebl, Judge.

1. The principal State’s witness against the defendant charged with child molestation (Ga. L. 1953, Nov. Sess., pp. 408, 409) was 8% years old at the time of the trial and on examination by the court to determine her competency to testify stated that she knew what it meant to tell a lie, and that she was supposed to tell the truth and that if she didn’t tell the truth she would get a spanking, that she was prepared to tell the truth and that it was not nice to tell a lie, that she understood that what she must tell at the trial must be the truth, that her mother told her what…