Reeves v. State of Alabama

Decision Date13 January 1958
Docket NumberNo. 66,66
PartiesJeremiah REEVES, Jr., petitioner, v. STATE OF ALABAMA
CourtU.S. Supreme Court

Messrs. Peter A. Hall and Orzell Billingsley, Jr., for petitioner.

Messrs. William F. Thetford and Robert B. Stewart (Messrs. John Patterson, Atty. Gen. of Alabama and Bernard F. Sykes, Asst. Atty. Gen., on the brief), for respondent.

On writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Alabama.

PER CURIAM.

The writ of certiorari is dismissed as improvidently granted.

Mr. Justice DOUGLAS dissents.

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