Case ID: ala-app_19/html/0280-01.html
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Author: {"author": "\n      . SAMFORD, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(97 South. 114)
    (3 Div. 466.)
    HAWES v. STATE.
    (Court of Appeals of Alabama.
    June 26, 1923.)
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    A verdict in -a prosecution on a charge of carnal knowledge of a girl over 12 and under 16, which found defendant guilts^ as charged in the indictment without fixing the punishment,. would not sustain a judgment of conviction.
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    Appeal from Circuit Court, Autauga County ; W. M. Lackey, Judge.
    L. C. Hawes was convicted of having carnal knowledge of a girl over 12 and under 16 -years of age, and appeals.
    Reversed and remanded
    The verdict of the jury was as fellows': “We the jury find the defendant guilty as charged in the indictment” — without fixing the punishment. The judgment of the court upon the verdict fixed the punishment at from four to six years in the penitentiary.
    Gipson & Booth, of Prattville, and Chester Austin, Thos. J. Judge, and Clarence Mullins, all of Birmingham, for appellant.
    The court erred in receiving the verdict of the jury, which failed- to fix Ihe punishment of the defendant. Acts 1915, p. 137; Washington v. State, 125 Ala. 40, 2S South. 78; Bates v. State, 170 Ala. 26, 54- South. 432; McKinney v. State, 17 Ala. App. 474, 86 South. 121.
    Harwell G. Davis, Atty. Gen., for the State.
    No brief reached the Reporter.
   . SAMFORD, J.

The judgment is reversed and the cause is remanded on the following authorities: Acts 1915, p. 137; McKinney v. State, 17 Ala. App. 474, 86 South. 121; Washington v. State, 125 Ala. 40, 28 South. 78; Bates v. State, 170 Ala. 26, 54 South. 432.