Legal Opinion
Aaron v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided July 14, 1960No. 3 Div. 887PublishedCited by 96 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*75LAWSON, Justice.
The appeal is from a judgment of conviction for rape with infliction of the death penalty.
The victim, a white woman, was ravished by a Negro man on June 27, 1959.
The appellant, Drewey Aaron, Jr., a Negro, was indicted by a grand jury of Montgomery County on July 17, 1959.
On July 20, 1959, before arraignment and the setting of the case for trial, Aaron moved that the arraignment be continued for one week. The motion for continuance was overruled.
On the same day Aaron filed a motion to quash the indictment, which contained four grounds. Grounds One, Two and Three were stricken…
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3Cited by96 opinions
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