Legal Opinion

Aaron v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided July 14, 1960No. 3 Div. 887Published

1Opinion of the Court

122 So.2d 360 (1960)

Drewey AARON

v.

STATE of Alabama.

3 Div. 887.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

July 14, 1960.

Solomon S. Seay, Jr., Montgomery, and J. L. Chestnut, Jr., Selma, for appellant.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., Geo. D. Mentz, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Wm. F. Thetford, Circuit Solicitor, Montgomery, for the State.

LAWSON, Justice.

The appeal is from a judgment of conviction for rape with infliction of the death penalty.

The victim, a white woman, was ravished by a Negro man on June 27, 1959.

The appellant, Drewey Aaron, Jr., a Negro, was indicted by a grand jury of Montgomery County on July 17, 1959.

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2Cases cited75 opinions

  1. Costello v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
  2. Holt v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
  3. Twining v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1908
  4. Lawn v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
  5. Avery v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1940

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