Dowlen v. State

OPINION

WALKER, Presiding Judge.

From the dismissal of his petition for post-conviction relief after an evidentiary hearing, the petitioner below, William Henry Dowlen, appeals to this court. In attacking as void his conviction for assault and battery on a *36female over twelve years of age with intent to have unlawful carnal knowledge and ten to twenty-one years sentence, he contends (1) that the evidence preponderated in his favor, and (2) that he did not receive a trial by a fair and impartial jury of his peers in that no Negro or woman served on the jury which convicted him.

In his assignments…