Scott v. State

SIMPSON, Justice.

The State’s evidence established that LeRoy Scott and another negro alternately raped a white woman at the city dump in Anniston, Alabama, and that-thereafter, on the same night, while his two confederates were restraining her male companion, Le-Roy subjected his victim to a second ravishment. His defense was an alibL On this conflicting evidence he was convicted of the offense of rape, received the death penalty, and has appealed from that sentence.

It was within the prerogative of the trial court to exclude from the courtroom all attendants and spectators except the…