Murphy v. State

This is an appeal from a conviction of carnal knowledge of a girl under twelve years of age, for which the jury fixed defendant's punishment at imprisonment for ten years, the minimum provided by the applicable statute. Code of Alabama Recompiled 1958, Tit. 14, § 398.

The victim testified that defendant, her father, had had sexual relations with her at numerous times commencing when she was eight or nine years of age and continuing to a day in the first week of December, 1976, which last incident occurred when she was nearly thirteen years of age and which incident she reported to the police…