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AVERY v. ALABAMA

No. 124.

308 U.S. 444 (1940)

AVERY v. ALABAMA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 2, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. L.S. Moore and John Foshee, with whom Mr. Edward H. Saunders was on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Thomas S. Lawson, Attorney General of Alabama, with whom Mr. William H. Loeb, Assistant Attorney General, was on the brief, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

Petitioner was convicted of murder in the Circuit Court of Bibb County, Alabama; he was sentenced to death and the State Supreme Court affirmed.1 The sole question presented is whether in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment "petitioner was denied the right of counsel, with the accustomed incidents of consultation and opportunity of preparation for trial," because after competent counsel...

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