JOHNSON v. WILSON

Civil No. 190.

45 F.Supp. 597 (1942)

JOHNSON v. WILSON, Warden.

District Court, M. D. Alabama, N. D.

July 9, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter S. Smith, of Birmingham, Ala., for petitioner.

Thomas S. Lawson, Atty. Gen. of Alabama, and Charles Rowe and Noble Russell, Asst. Attys. Gen. of Alabama, for respondent.


CHARLES B. KENNAMER, District Judge.

Frank Johnson, alias Bradley Johnson, a negro, was indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in the circuit court of Jefferson County, Alabama, Bessemer division, a court of competent jurisdiction, of the crime of rape; the alleged victim being a white woman. An appeal was taken from this conviction and sentence to the Supreme Court of Alabama, the highest appellate court in the State, which court affirmed the case. Johnson...

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