Legal Opinion
Swain v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided September 5, 1963No. 7 Div. 581PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOODWYN, Justice.
Robert Swain, a Negro, was indicted in Talladega County for the rape of a seventeen year old white girl, found guilty, and sentenced to death. His appeal here is under the provisions of the automatic appeal statute. Act No. 249, appvd. June 24, 1943, Gen.Acts 1943, p. 217; Recompiled Code 1958, Tit. 15, § 382(1), et seq.
Appellant filed motions to quash the indictment and the trial venire on the ground that Negroes were habitually, intentionally, and systematically excluded from the jury rolls of Talladega County, in violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth…
2Cases cited43 opinions
- Brown v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Hernandez v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Smith v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Norris v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
- Pointer v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
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3Cited by34 opinions
- Swain v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Arthur v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1996
- Seals v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1968
- Diamond v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1978
- Butler v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1970
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