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PATTERSON v. ALABAMA

No. 554.

294 U.S. 600 (1935)

55 S.Ct. 575

79 L.Ed. 1082

PATTERSON v. ALABAMA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 1, 1935.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Walter H. Pollak, with whom Messrs. Osmond K. Fraenkel and Carl S. Stern were on the brief, for petitioner.

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

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

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,

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