SWAIN v. STATE

7 Div. 581.

156 So.2d 368 (1963)

Robert SWAIN v. STATE of Alabama.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied September 26, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Orzell Billingsley, Jr., and Peter A. Hall, Birmingham, for appellant.

Richmond M. Flowers, Atty. Gen., and Leslie Hall, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


GOODWYN, Justice.

Robert Swain, a Negro, was indicted in Talladega County for the rape of a seventeen year old white girl, found guilty, and sentenced to death. His appeal here is under the provisions of the automatic appeal statute. Act No. 249, appvd. June 24, 1943, Gen.Acts 1943, p. 217; Recompiled Code 1958, Tit. 15, § 382(1), et seq.

Appellant filed motions to quash the indictment and the trial venire on...

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