Appalachian Insurance v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• holding that statute that imposed different requirements to establish parental rights on father than on mother did not violate father’s right to equal protection under the law
• photographing a person who reported as required to his parole officer was not a search
• defendant stabbed a four year old child and assaulted her fourteen year old sister
• with a two-foot machete, defendant entered the victim's house, threatened to rape the victim's fourteen year old sister, and struck at the four year old victim while she was in her sister's arms, wounding her nine times
• previous conviction of murder in the second degree