BOWEN, Judge.
In an atmosphere infected with racial conflict and tension the black defendant was convicted for the rape of a white Decatur railway clerk. Sentence was fixed at thirty years' imprisonment.
Although several issues have been raised on appeal, the most significant one involves the defendant's mental subnormality as affecting the voluntariness and admissibility of his confession.
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Under the Constitutions of the United States and...
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