Flournoy v. State

BROWN, Justice.

The petitioner was convicted of incest, the offense denounced by § 325, Title 14, Code of 1940, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of seven years.. From the judgment of conviction he appealed to the court of appeals where the judgment was affirmed. By his petition for certiorari he seeks to review and reverse said judgment of affirmance. H'is major contention is that the indictment under which he was tried charged in separate counts incest and rape. Each of said counts was in statutory form (Code of 1940, Tit. 15, § 259, forms 67 and 89) and named as, the injured…