Legal Opinion
Washington v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided August 5, 1971No. 4 Div. 334PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAWSON, Justice.
James Washington was convicted in the Circuit Court of Houston County of the first degree murder of Benjamin O. Sailors, a police officer of the City of Dothan. The jury fixed his punishment at death. Judgment and sentence were in accord with the verdict.
Our review is controlled by the automatic appeal law. applicable to cases where the death sentence is imposed. — Act 249, approved June 24, 1943, General Acts 1943, p. 217, carried in the 1955 Cumulative Pocket Part to Volume Four, 1940 Official Code, and in the 1958 Recompiled Code (unofficial) as Title 15, §§ 382(1) et seq.
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2Cases cited27 opinions
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- Schmerber v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Commonwealth v. ChackoSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1983
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