Hooper v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Criminal Court of Jefferson. Tried before the Hon. Samuel E. Gkeene. The appellant, Thomas Hooper, was indicted, tried and convicted of rape ; and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. The female upon whom the defendant was accused and convicted of having committed the rape was his own daughter, who was fourteen years of age.
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Appeal from the Criminal Court of Jefferson. Tried before the Hon. Samuel E. Gkeene. The appellant, Thomas Hooper, was indicted, tried and convicted of rape ; and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. The female upon whom the defendant was accused and convicted of having committed the rape was his own daughter, who was fourteen years of age. This daughter testified, that, on one occasion when her mother was away from home, and after her father had driven her little brothers and one of their little friends out of the house into the yard, leaving her and her father alone in the house, “My…
1Opinion of the CourtColeman, J.
— The defendant was tried, convicted of the offense of rape upon his own daughter, a girl about fourteen years of age, and sentenced to suffer imprisonment in the penitentiaay for life. The only exceptions reserved during the trial were to the refusal of the court, to give two instructions to the jury; requested by the defendant .
Section 2756 of the Code provides that “charges moved for by either ,parfcy must be in writing, and must be given *43or refused in the terms in which they are written,” &c. This statute imposes upon counsel, the grave responsibility of preparing charges for the jury…
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