Legal Opinion
Bass v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided October 2, 1979PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
375 So.2d 540 (1979)
Tommy BASS
v.
STATE.
8 Div. 197.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.
August 21, 1979.
As Corrected On Denial of Rehearing October 2, 1979.
Robert Straub, Decatur, for appellant.
Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., and Jimmy L. DeBardelaben, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
LEIGH M. CLARK, Retired Circuit Judge.
Appellant was convicted of rape. The court fixed his punishment at ninety-nine years imprisonment in the penitentiary and sentenced him accordingly.
The victim was an eleven-year-old girl. According to her testimony, she and her twelve-year-old brother went to a grocery store in…
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