Legal Opinion
Washington v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided February 12, 1959Published
1Opinion of the Court
112 So.2d 179 (1959)
Caliph WASHINGTON
v.
STATE of Alabama.
6 Div. 227.
Supreme Court of Alabama.
February 12, 1959.
Rehearing Denied May 14, 1959.
David H. Hood, Jr., Bessemer, and Orzell Billingsley, Jr., K. C. Edwards, Birmingham, for appellant.
John Patterson, Atty. Gen., and Edmon L. Rinehart, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
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,…
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