Jackson v. State

CARR, Presiding Judge.

The appellant, Linnie Jackson, was indicted and convicted for the offense of miscegenation as denounced by Title 14, Sec. 360, Code 1940.

The appeal is before us on the record proper without a transcription of the testimony.

The accused demurred to the indictment solely on federal constitutional grounds, taking the position that the statute is in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution. This presents the only question for our review.

Section 102, Art. 4 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901 provides:

"The legislature shall never pass any law to…