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WASHINGTON v. STATE

6 Div. 227.

112 So.2d 179 (1959)

Caliph WASHINGTON v. STATE of Alabama.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied May 14, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David H. Hood, Jr., Bessemer, and Orzell Billingsley, Jr., K. C. Edwards, Birmingham, for appellant.

John Patterson, Atty. Gen., and Edmon L. Rinehart, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

LAWSON, Justice.

Caliph Washington was tried for first degree murder in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Bessemer Division. He was convicted and sentenced to death. The case comes here under the automatic appeal statute. Act No. 249, Acts 1943, p. 217, approved June 24, 1943. See 1955 Cum. Pocket Part, Vol. 4, Code 1940, Title 15, § 382(1) et seq.

Appellant filed motions to quash the indictment and trial venire on the ground that his rights under...

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