Manuscript/Mixed Material NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. Mississippi, 1954-1955 (criminal law, Miss.)
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Image 1 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … NAALP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND CASE FILE BOX C FOLDER _ _ a sh
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 2 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … HARRISON COUNTY THE STATE OF MISSISSIPRI V3 NO 39537 oTATE OF M13SI83IPPI ASSIGNMENT OF ERRORS Now comes Walter Johnson by R D Wigs ls The appellant is a negro There were no…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 3 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … accounts for its rarely being inflicted by a jury that the courts action in excusing said juror substantially prejudiced the appellant in that the inevitable impression made on the remaining jurors was…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 4 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … only by a mental or psychological examination and a clinical interview of the appellant by a psychiatrist whose services he the appellant was without any means whatever to obtainj that 118 attorney…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 5 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … 2 by a a Q A certify Agssignm stat B 3 Ps hs a oh py Sang oO J 3 4 a 23 bo a o oO 3 ie k 5 re…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 6 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI JANUARY 1855 TERM WALTER JOHNSON APPELLANT STATE OF MISSSSIPPI APPELLEE REJOINDER BRIEF FOR APPELLANT R D Wigginton Attorney for Appellant Engligh Lindsey Jo…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 7 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … LIST OF AUTHORITIES Page Bishop v State 96 Miss 846 52 So 21 rscoes 2 Cole v State 170 Migs 800 130 So 187 rromrencsas 2 Eatman v State 169 Miss 285…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 8 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI JANUARY 18566 TERM NO 39537 WALTER JOHNSON APPELLANT VS STATE OF MISSISSIPPI APPELLEE REJOINDER BRIEF FOR APPELLANT Appellants rejoinder brief will be addressed…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 9 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … attorney R 2635 Certainly the appellant a 17 year old Negro boy could not in the circumstances and under the evidence be charged with a knowledge of his own insanity insane persons…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 10 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … receive a sentence of a life imprisonment but the State was adamant in its demand for the death penalty to be inflicted on the 17 year old appellant see R 278279 If…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 11 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … Rule of Reason our AngloSaxon heritage imposes on us the duty the burden and responsiblity to see that no insane person however horrible his crime is sacrificed on the altar of a…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 12 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … heighten and accentuate the horror and indignation of the white jurors who would sit in judgment on his very life 2 Secondly The evidence shows without dispute that the appellant when he…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 13 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … Even there it is not a mark of good health Ina 17 year old individual it is a mark of extreme abnormality Testimony of Dr H L Deabler R 257288 It is…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 14 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … citizens who are really as much concerned to save the good and fair name of Migeissippi from what they honestly believe would become and be a scandal and a disgraceas they are…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 15 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … before it on January 3 1865 that he had not tried a capital case in 25 years certainly he did not and does not hold himself out as a criminal lawyer as…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 16 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … overwhelmingly carried Without passing judgment on them per se we do insist that even the ourt may take judicial notice of the altered and angry mood of many white people toward the…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 17 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI NO 39537 WALTER JOHNSON a wv ww vo APPELLANT VERSUS STATE OF MISSISSIPPI APPELLEE ORDER ALLOWING APPEAL AND GRANTING A STAY OF EXECUTION…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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- Date: 1954
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- Date: 1954
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- Date: 1954
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Image 21 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … that the xtreme and th i old and our kno black or white has ever been requi ER old kd murder or any other crime 5 submit po a 1 a a…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 22 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI NO 39537 WALTER JOHNSON ww vw vw APPELLANT VERSUS PETITION FOR APPEAL FROM THE EE 15 COUNT QF THE STATE OF MI3S1ISSIPPI TO…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 23 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … 4 conviction by the said Supreme Court of the State of Mississippi was affirmed on January 17 1954 whereupon within the time ale lowed by the rules of the said Supreme Court…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 24 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … i 2 and supersedeas be granted to Walter Johnson appellantpetitionmer pending the hearing and examination of this Cause by the Supreme Court of the United States and also that a transcript of…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 25 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … nr rer TERN fraTRee ry i THE UN Li 1 TR CR 3p og In TH UrREME CONTR UR TH TRI EL STATES OCTOBER TFRM 1954 WALD TD JOIuens WALD R JOHREOR…
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- Date: 1954
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Image 26 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … a delivery on Monday April 18th 1955 Fetiti ners time to file said petition expires on Avril 18 1 opinion of the Supreme Court of Migeissirpi hee been printed oi ES in…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 27 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No WALTER JOHNSON e Ve H Lad STATE OF MISSISSIPPI 3 OF PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI I…
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- Date: 1954
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Image 28 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES WALTER JOHNSON PETITIONER VS NO 741 MISC STATE OF MISSISSIPPI RESPONDENT de dk de dc de dk dk sk op sk de wk ok…
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- Date: 1954
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Image 29 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES WALTER JOHNSON PETITIONER VS NO 741 MISC STATE OF MISSISSIPPI RESPONDENT dk ok ok ok ok dk ok ok ok ok dk ok dk…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 30 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … The only question presented to this Honorable Court in such petition is whether petitioner was denied rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution where he has been sentenced…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 31 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … The indictment in this case was returned by a grand Jury composed of 17 persons Although the record does not disclose the race of any member of the grand jury panel or…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 32 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … It is established as the law of the land evidenced by many decisions of both state courts and the Supreme Court of the United States that the exclusion of negroes from grand…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 33 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … in that case that for more than 30 years no negro had served on the juries It has been established by many decisions of our Supreme Court that any objections to the…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 34 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … 8 negroes were drawn His testimony in the main merely established that no negroes were impaneled He testified that in the past there had been as many as five or six negro…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 35 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … Did the appellant establish in any manner whatever that negroes had been systematically excluded from the jury panels in Harrison County or that they were systematically excluded in this case It 1s…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 36 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … CERTIFICATE I J P COLEMAN ATTORNEY GENERAL of the State of Mississippi hereby certify that I have this day mailed postage prepaid a copy of the foregoing Reply to Petition for a…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 37 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI WALTER JOHNSON APPELLANT Vs NO 39537 STATE OF MISSISSIPPI APPELLEE dk dk ok ok dk ok of ok dk ok dk af x…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 38 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … ie 3 the United States from the final judgment and decree of this Court entered on January 17 1955 the Chief Justice of this Court on the 24th day of February 1955…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
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Image 40 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. … afzald of the knifs while find no epacific statute on the subieat it is my understanding that the law is And so ou ted ty the Judge Alexander in hls work on…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1954
About this Item
Title
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Johnson v. Mississippi, 1954-1955 (criminal law, Miss.)
Names
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Created / Published
- 1954 - 1955
Headings
- - Law--United States
- - Civil rights--United States
- - African Americans--Civil rights
- - African Americans--Segregation
- - Segregation--United States
- - United States--Race relations
- - United States--Armed Forces--African Americans
- - African Americans--Education
- - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- - African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc
- - African Americans--Political activity
- - Criminal law--United States
- - Discrimination--Law and legislation--United States
- - Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States
- - Discrimination in education--United States
- - Discrimination in employment--United States
- - Discrimination in housing--United States
- - Discrimination in public accommodations--United States
- - Discrimination in the military--United States
- - Educational law and legislation--United States
- - Election law--United States
- - Housing--Law and legislation--United States
- - Labor laws and legislation--United States
- - Recreation centers--Law and legislation--United States
- - Suffrage--United States
- - Manuscripts
- - United States
Genre
- Manuscripts
Call Number/Physical Location
- series: Legal Case File, 1915-1967
- mss65570, box 222
Source Collection
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records
Repository
- Manuscript Division
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Online Format
- image
- online text
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Dates
Location
Language
Subject
- African Americans
- Armed Forces
- Civil Rights
- Criminal Law
- Discrimination
- Discrimination in Criminal Justice Administration
- Discrimination in Education
- Discrimination in Employment
- Discrimination in Housing
- Discrimination in Public Accommodations
- Discrimination in the Military
- Education
- Educational Law and Legislation
- Election Law
- Housing
- Labor Laws and Legislation
- Law
- Law and Legislation
- Legal Status, Laws, Etc
- Manuscripts
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- Political Activity
- Race Relations
- Recreation Centers
- Segregation
- Suffrage
- United States