Court Opinion

ID: 9527299
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 03:29:21.440147+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:25:42.170429
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On Application for Rehearing.
CARR, Presiding Judge.
In brief on application for rehearing appellant’s attorney urges that, in the event the application is overruled, we extend our original opinion by setting out the separate federal constitutional grounds of attack made on the statute involved in this appeal. We will do this by copying the demurrer to the indictment:
“Comes now the Defendant Linnie Jackson, alias Lennie Jackson, and demurs to the indictment and to each count thereof separately and severally, and as grounds of demurrer assigns the following:
“(1) For that Title 14, Section 360, Code of Alabama, 1940, the statute upon which said indictment is based, constitutes a discrimination by the State of Alabama in punishment so arbitrary as to deny to this Negro Defendant the due process of law guaranteed to her by the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America.
“(2) For that Title 14, Section 360, Code of Alabama, 1940, the statute upon which said indictment is based, is violative of the constitutional restraint against discriminatory legislation imposed by the due process of law clause of the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America.
“(3) For that Title 14, Section 360, Code of Alabama, 1940, the statute upon which said indictment is based, constitutes an arbitrary and unreasonable discrimination by the State of Alabama against this Negro Defendant, and members of her race similarly situated, violative of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America.
“(4) For that Title 14, Section 360, Code of Alabama, 1940, the statute upon which said indictment is bhsed, is violative of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America in that it abridges the privileges and immunities guaranteed to this Negro Defendant by said 14th Amendment.
“(5) For that Title 14, Section 360, Code of Alabama, 1940, the statute upon which said indictment is based, is violative of the Constitution of the United States of America in that it arbitrarily denies to this Negro Defendant her constitutional right and privilege of intermarrying with a white male person.
“(6) For that Title 14, Section 360, Code of Alabama, 1940, the statute upon which said indictment is based, arbitrarily and unreasonably prohibits this Negro American Defendant from intermarrying with a male American of the white race, and is therefore in violation of the first section of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America.
“(7) For said indictment charges this Negro Defendant with more than one offense in the alternative, and one oj the offenses so charged, to-wit: ‘that A. C. Burcham, whose name is to the Grand Jury otherwise unknown, than as stated, a white person, and Linnie Jackson, alias Lennie Jackson, whose name is to the Grand Jury otherwise unknown, than as stated, a Negro or descendant of a Negro, did intermarry’ charges this Negro De*522fendant with the legislative crime of intermarrying with a white person, based upon an alleged violation of a portion of Title 14, Section 360, Code of Alabama, 1940, and the aforesaid alternative alleged offense so charged in said indictment, and that portion of said Title 14, Section 360, Code of Alabama, 1940, upon which the aforesaid alternative alleged offense is based, constitutes an arbitrary and unrea-' sonable discrimination by the State of Alabama against this Negro Defendant, and a denial to her by the State of Alabama of due process of law, and further constitutes an abridgement of the privileges and immunities of this Negro Defendant by the State of Alabama, all guaranteed to her by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution of the United States of America.”
Application for rehearing overruled.