Booth v. State

GARDNER, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from a conviction of murder in the second degree with punishment fixed at imprisonment for a period of twenty-five years.

Defendant is charged with the murder of his daughter, Addie Ruth Booth, a young girl near fourteen years of age, who was well developed and rather large for her age. She lived with her father in a house at Kimberly, Alabama, and not far from Warrior. On the night of Wednesday, October 25, 1944, about nine o’clock she was brought to Hillman Hospital and carried to the emergency ward. The defendant, her father, accompanied her in the…