Wilburn v. State

BOWEN, Judge.

Rose Linda Wilburn was convicted of child abuse in violation of Alabama Code 1975, § 26-15-2, and was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. Four issues are presented on this appeal from that conviction.

I

The defendant contends that the prosecutor should not have been permitted to cross-examine her about her “cohabitating with someone.”

The defendant was convicted of abusing her four-year-old son.

The defendant testified that she had been married once and that Thomas Wilburn was the father of two of her three children. She refused to reveal the identity of the victim’s father, which…