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Lawrence v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama
May 30, 1918
79 So. 312 (Ala. 1918)

Opinion

6 Div. 779.

May 30, 1918.

Appeal from Circuit Court, Pickens County; H. B. Foster, Judge.

P. C. Barksdale, of Columbus, Miss., for appellant. F. Loyd Tate, Atty. Gen., and Emmett S. Thigpen, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


Defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death. The trial court overruled a motion to quash the special venire, and also a motion to quash the indictment, on the ground that, defendant being a negro and the victim a white man, defendant was denied the right to have competent members of his race on the grand jury that indicted him, and on the petit jury that tried him, by reason of the designed exclusion of their names from the jury boxes of Pickens county, thereby infringing upon his constitutional rights to trial by an impartial jury, to due process of law, and to the equal protection of the laws.

The record shows that defendant offered no evidence in support of these motions, and no bill of exceptions is presented. For this reason, if there were no other, the motions were properly overruled. The subject is fully discussed in Green v. State, 73 Ala. 26. Our inspection of the record discovers no error in the trial proceedings, and the judgment will be affirmed.

Affirmed. All the Justices concur.


Summaries of

Lawrence v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama
May 30, 1918
79 So. 312 (Ala. 1918)
Case details for

Lawrence v. State

Case Details

Full title:LAWRENCE v. STATE

Court:Supreme Court of Alabama

Date published: May 30, 1918

Citations

79 So. 312 (Ala. 1918)
202 Ala. 14