Legal Opinion
Washington v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided January 12, 1971No. 6 Div. 154PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CATES, Judge.
Murder, second degree: sentence, forty years.
For prior proceedings see: Washington v. State, 269 Ala. 146, 112 So.2d 179; 274 Ala. 386, 148 So.2d 206; Washington v. Holman, 5 Cir., 364 F.2d 618, modifying 245 F.Supp. 116. The indictment was filed September 12, 1957.
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On March 20, 1970, -defendant filed a “Motion to Quash Indictment and Refill *541the Jury Box.” The defendant, a Negro, alleged therein systematic exclusion of Negroes from the jury roll in the Bessemer Division of Jefferson County.
• One allegation based on the 1960 Census was that in the Bessemer Cut-Off there were…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- Jenkins v. DelawareSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Smith v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1968
- Orzell Billingsley, Sr., C. Herbert Oliver, J. S. Phifer and Abraham Woods, Jr. v. George W. ClaytonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
- Coleman v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Williams v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1976
- Washington v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1971