Beckley v. State., 6 Div. 931

• Decision Date: 31 August 1976
• Docket Number: 6 Div. 931
• Citation: Beckley v. State., 342 So.2d 1330 (Ala. Crim. App. 1976)
• Parties: Sammy BECKLEY, alias v. STATE.
• Court: Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals

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342 So.2d 1330

Sammy BECKLEY, alias v.STATE.

6 Div. 931.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

Aug. 31, 1976.

Rehearing Denied Oct. 12, 1976.

Appeal from Circuit Court, Tuscaloosa County; W. Aubrey Dominick, Judge.

Sam A. Beatty and Donald M. Phillips, Northport, for appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen. and Jack Curtis, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

BOOKOUT, Judge.

Burglary; sentence: thirty years.Rape; sentence: fifteen years and one day.

This Court, on this date, rendered an opinion authored by Cates, P.J., which governs the instant appeal: Williams v. State, (1976), Ala.Cr.App., 342 So.2d 1325.

The testimony in both cases concerning the selection of jurors is identical.In both instances, there is a random selection from the voters' list in Tuscaloosa County, excluding persons over the age of sixty-five years.As Judge Cates pointed out in that opinion:

"Alabama law, Code 1940, T. 30, § 21, as amended, does not exclude persons over 65 from being put on the jury roll.Rather it leaves serving after summons to the individual.

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"The defendant was entitled to a cross section of the community without purposeful exclusion, Taylor v. Louisiana, 419 U.S. 522, 95 S.Ct. 692, 42 L.Ed.2d 690.Since trial was after January 21, 1975, Taylor controls.SeeDaniel v. Louisiana, 420 U.S. 31, 95 S.Ct. 704, 42 L.Ed.2d 790."

As to the illegality of selecting jurors only from lists of registered voters seeGregg v. Maples, 286 Ala. 274, 239 So.2d 198(1970).

REVERSED AND REMANDED.

All the Judges concur except DeCARLO, J., dissents.

Certiorari denied, Ala., 342 So.2d 1331.