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BEECHER v. ALABAMA

No. 92, Misc.

389 U.S. 35 (1967)

88 S.Ct. 189

19 L.Ed.2d 35

BEECHER v. ALABAMA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided October 23, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit III and Michael Meltsner for petitioner.

MacDonald Gallion, Attorney General of Alabama, and Leslie Hall, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.

PER CURIAM.

On the morning of June 15, 1964, the petitioner, a Negro convict in a state prison, escaped from a road gang in Camp Scottsboro, Alabama. On June 16, a woman's lifeless body was found not more than a mile from the prison camp. The next day, the petitioner was captured in Tennessee; he was then returned to Jackson County, Alabama, where he was indicted, tried, and convicted on a charge of first degree murder. The jury fixed his punishment at death. After...

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