Beckley v. State

BOOKOUT, Judge.

Burglary; sentence: thirty years. Rape; sentence: fifteen years and one day.

This Court, on this date, rendered an opinion authored by Cates, P. J., which governs the instant appeal: Williams v. State, (1976), Ala.Cr.App., 342 So.2d 1325.

The testimony in both cases concerning the selection of jurors is identical. In both instances, there is a random selection from the voters’ list in Tuscaloosa County, excluding persons over the age of sixty-five years. As Judge Cates pointed out in that opinion:

“Alabama law, Code 1940, T. 30, § 21, as amended, does not exclude persons over 65…