Legal Opinion
Blackmon v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided January 28, 1986PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appellants Blackmon and McWilliams were tried together in the Circuit Court of Mobile County. Both men were convicted of rape in the first degree, sodomy in the first degree, and robbery in the first degree.
In the early morning hours of September 17, 1983, Deputy Alton Neidhart of the Mobile County Sheriff's Department was dispatched to the Mauvilla area to investigate a possible robbery. Once at the scene of the reported robbery, Deputy Neidhart heard what sounded like muffled screams emanating from a nearby wooded area. He took the search light from the squad car and shined it through the…
2Cases cited27 opinions
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- Swain v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
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3Cited by15 opinions
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