Legal Opinion
Howard v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided June 30, 1965No. 3 Div. 162PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MERRILL, Justice.
This appeal is from a death sentence after a conviction of murder in the first degree; and comes to this court under the Automatic Appeal Statute, approved June 24, 1943, and listed as Tit. 15, § 382(1)-382(13), 1958 Recompilation.
This is the second appeal in this case. Appellant appealed the death sentence in his first trial and we affirmed, Howard v. State, 273 Ala. 544, 142 So.2d 685. Later, he filed application for leave to file a writ of error coram nobis, the chief reason being the alleged systematic exclusion of Negroes from grand and petit juries in Butler County. The…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Swain v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Avery v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Cassell v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Hill v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Aaron v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1960
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3Cited by22 opinions
- Seibold v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1970
- Boulden v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1965
- Lokos v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1965
- Pace v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1969
- Moore v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1974
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