Shepherd v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Law and Equity Court of Walker. Tried before the Hon. Peyton Nobvell. The appellant Ed Shepherd, was indicted and tried for forcibly ravishing Lastena Russell, a girl, and was convicted of the offense charged and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years. The evidence introduced on the trial of the case and the facts relating to the rulings upon the evidence are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from the Law and Equity Court of Walker. Tried before the Hon. Peyton Nobvell. The appellant Ed Shepherd, was indicted and tried for forcibly ravishing Lastena Russell, a girl, and was convicted of the offense charged and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years. The evidence introduced on the trial of the case and the facts relating to the rulings upon the evidence are sufficiently stated in the opinion. Upon the introduction of all the evidence the defendant requested the court to give to the jury the following written charges, and separately excepted to the court’s refusal to…
1Opinion of the CourtHaralson, J.
The evidence shoAved without dispute that the prosecutrix Avas a girl of about twelve years of age and lived with the defendant, who was her stepfather. She testified that there were at defendant’s house three children and herself, and the defendant made the others besides herself go out of the house to play; that he shut the door and made her get on the bed when he committed the act of sexual intercourse with her; that he shook her and said he would ldll her if she did not give up to him. The evidence showed that prosecutrix was very ignorant and illiterate.
The State proved by prosecutrix…
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