Patterson v. Alabama

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1935-04-01

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Me. Chief Justice Hughes delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioner, Haywood Patterson, was indicted with Clarence Norris (the petitioner in No. 534, ante, p. 587) and seven other negro boys in Jackson County, Alabama, for the crime of rape. Judgment of conviction was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the State. That judgment, and like j…

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