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POWELL v. ALABAMA

Nos. 98, 99, and 100.

287 U.S. 45 (1932)

OZIE POWELL, WILLIE ROBERSON, ANDY WRIGHT, AND OLEN MONTGOMERY v. ALABAMA. HAYWOOD PATTERSON v. SAME. CHARLEY WEEMS AND CLARENCE NORRIS v. SAME.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 7, 1932.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Walter H. Pollak, with whom Messrs. Carl S. Stern and George W. Chamlee were on the brief, for petitioners.

Mr. Thomas E. Knight, Jr., Attorney General of Alabama, with whom Mr. Thos. Seay Lawson, Assistant Attorney General, was on the brief, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

These cases were argued together and submitted for decision as one case.

The petitioners, hereinafter referred to as defendants, are negroes charged with the crime of rape, committed upon the persons of two white girls. The crime is said to have been committed on March 25, 1931. The indictment was returned in a state court of first instance on March 31, and...

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