Legal Opinion
Anderson v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Decided November 10, 1959No. 2 Div. 16PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CATES, Judge.
Anderson has appealed his conviction of first degree manslaughter. The verdict also carried ten years’ imprisonment.
The first principal point relates to the sufficiency of the evidence, and whether two witnesses were competent to testify as to the speed of an automobile.
A second question is grounded on the allegation that, in Dallas County, Alabama, there was, at the time of indictment (January 29, 1959) and the time of trial (February 27, 1959), a systematic exclusion of Negroes from juries with a consequent denial to Anderson, a Negro, of the equal protection of the law…
2Cases cited59 opinions
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- Hernandez v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
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3Cited by17 opinions
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