TAYLOR v. STATE

6 Div. 38.

97 So.2d 802 (1957)

Samuel TAYLOR v. The STATE of Alabama.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied November 14, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marcus Jones and Morel Montgomery, Birmingham, for appellant.

John Patterson, Atty. Gen., and Geo. Young, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


GOODWYN, Justice.

Samuel Taylor, alias "Iron Man", was convicted of rape and sentenced to death by electrocution. His appeal is here pursuant to the statute providing for automatic appeals in death cases. Act No. 249, appvd. June 24, 1943, Gen.Acts 1943, p. 217, Code 1940, Tit. 15, § 382(1) et seq., Pocket Part.

The evidence tended to show the following: At a little past midnight on Saturday morning the prosecuting...

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