Legal Opinion
Palmore v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided April 8, 1943No. 4 Div. 281PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOULDIN, Justice.
Appellant, Wash Palmore, was indicted for the murder of Curtis Warren, was convicted of murder in the first degree, and punishment fixed at imprisonment for life.
The grave question on this appeal is the ruling of the trial court admitting in evidence a confession reduced to writing and signed by defendant.
Curtis Warren, a white man, resident of Donalsonville, in the State of Georgia, came to his death by violence on the night of May 19, 1941, in Houston County, Alabama, at a point on the highway leading from Donalsonville, Georgia, to Dothan, Alabama. Wash Palmore, a negro,…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- Brown v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1936
- Chambers v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
- Ward v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- White v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
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3Cited by11 opinions
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- United States v. Thomas W. RobinsonCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1971
- Fitzhugh v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1949
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