COLEMAN v. ALABAMA

No. 72.

399 U.S. 1 (1970)

COLEMAN ET AL. v. ALABAMA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 22, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Tarter, by appointment of the Court, 394 U.S. 1011, argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioners.

David W. Clark, Assistant Attorney General of Alabama, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was MacDonald Gallion, Attorney General.


MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the following opinion.

Petitioners were convicted in an Alabama Circuit Court of assault with intent to murder in the shooting of one Reynolds after he and his wife parked their car on an Alabama highway to change a flat tire. The Alabama Court of Appeals affirmed, 44 Ala. App. 429, 211 So.2d 917 (1968), and the Alabama...

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