Legal Opinion
Patterson v. Alabama
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 1, 1935No. 554PublishedCited by 160 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hughes
Petitioner, Haywood Patterson, was indicted with Clarence Norris (the petitioner in No. 534, ante, p. 587) and seven other negro boys in Jackson County, Alabama, for the crime of rape. Judgment of conviction was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the State. That judgment, and like judgments in the case of Norris and others, were reversed by this Court. Powell v. Alabama, 287 U. S. 45.
After the remand, all of the cases were transferred for trial to Morgan County. Patterson was the first of those retried. The jury found a verdict against him which the trial judge set aside as against the weight…
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