Legal Opinion
Washington v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided February 12, 1959No. 6 Div. 227PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAWSON, Justice.
Caliph Washington was tried for first degree murder in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Bessemer Division. He was convicted and sentenced to death. The case comes here under the automatic appeal statute. Act No. 249, Acts 1943, p. 217, approved June 24, 1943. See 1955 Cum. Pocket Part, Vol. 4, Code 1940, Title 15, § 382(1) et seq.
Appellant filed motions to quash the indictment and trial venire on the ground that his rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States were violated in that persons of his race, the Negro race, duly qualified…
2Cases cited50 opinions
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- Avery v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
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- Fikes v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
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3Cited by30 opinions
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