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BOYKIN v. ALABAMA

No. 642.

395 U.S. 238 (1969)

BOYKIN v. ALABAMA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 2, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Graham Gibbons, by appointment of the Court, 393 U.S. 931, argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief was Stephen A. Hopkins.

David W. Clark, Assistant Attorney General of Alabama, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was MacDonald Gallion, Attorney General.

Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit III, Michael Meltsner, Melvyn Zarr, and Anthony G. Amsterdam filed a brief for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., et al. as amici curiae urging reversal.

MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.

In the spring of 1966, within the period of a fortnight, a series of armed robberies occurred in Mobile, Alabama. The victims, in each case, were local shopkeepers open at night who were forced by a gunman to hand over money. While robbing one grocery store, the assailant fired his gun once, sending a bullet through a door into the ceiling. A few days earlier in a drugstore, the robber had allowed his gun to...

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