The case was filed in the federal court in the Southern District of Alabama. But this chain of events happened between 1979 and 1987just 34 years ago. Furthermore, according to the record, the testimony of Phyllis Johnson would have been merely cumulative and, therefore, there was no abuse in failing to grant a continuance because of her absence at trial. A defendant has the right to have his trial removed to another county if he cannot receive a fair and impartial trial in the county in which the indictment is found. "`In reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence the appellate courts of this State are bound by several well settled rules. Their line of thinking was that a black man would never convict another black man for killing a white police officer. Born 1926 and died 1984. In reviewing a conviction based on circumstantial evidence, the test to be applied by this court is whether the jury might reasonably find that the evidence excluded every reasonable hypothesis except that of guilt; not whether the evidence excludes every reasonable hypothesis except guilt. We cant rewrite OR I write that history. Just before the FBI was to close the case, Rev. Working together, the two men pulled Michael Donalds body up over a tree limb. There he observed appellant lying on the ground in front of the motel swimming pool. *294 Douglas H. Scofield and William N. Clark, Birmingham, for appellant. She said that she then heard three shots and saw the man ran down an alley. Jill Tapscott, branch manager of Jefferson Federal Savings and Loan on Fifth Avenue in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, testified that, on November 29, 1979, she was working at the branch office along with Shannon Hill and Jane Baird. However, the defense counsel stated that approximately two days later, at a hearing, the prosecutor identified the other witness as being Shirley Stewart, but stated that he had no information as to her whereabouts. Charles A. Graddick, Atty. The man had a mustache. Id. Sitting in his patrol car, Sgt. denied, Ex parte Clements, 390 So. The judgment of conviction is affirmed. App.1978). Ballard was shot and killed by Josephus Anderson, who was fleeing a bank robbery. Because of the untimeliness of the objection and the trial court's action in instructing the jurors, the appellant's motion was properly denied. Furthermore, during the cross-examination of several of the State's witnesses, the defense counsel was able to recall their testimony from the previous trials and, moreover, attempted to introduce the previous testimony of at least one State's witness, Lula White, into evidence in order to show that she had changed her testimony. The appellant argues that the trial court erred in denying him access to a transcript of each of his two prior trials. Two members of the Klan group were very upset and began driving around Mobile in search of a black person to attack. Anderson and ?? The appellant argues that because jury lists are customarily taken from the voter registration list, he should have been allowed to interview the individual who did the preliminary voir dire examination, to determine if jurors were excluded from the venire on the basis of convictions of crimes involving moral turpitude. But it is HISTORY, an important part of how things DID eventually change. Articles of the appellant's clothing, rolls of coins taken from the appellant's pockets, a total of $2,058 in currency, and $13,300 in travelers checks were recovered from the scene. The appellant contends that his conviction is due to be reversed on the basis of cumulative error. After two mistrials in the homicide case, the Jefferson County District Attorney's office proceeded with the robbery charge against appellant and the Honorable Orson L. Johnson was appointed on January 16, 1981, to represent appellant in this cause. 2d 44 (Ala.1979). Josephus Anderson, age 79, would die from natural causes in March, 2021, while serving his life sentence in Holman prison. Joseph Anderson . The granting of an accused's motion for change of venue rests within the sound discretion of the trial court and its ruling thereon will not be disturbed except for gross abuse. The Court concluded that the Hunter holding found 182 in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment "`with respect to those convicted of crimes not punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary.' Appellant's contention that he was denied his right to counsel for state criminal prosecutions as established by Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335, 83 S. Ct. 792, 9 L. Ed. I agree with you. Anderson's lawyers were granted a change of venue and the trial moved to Mobile, Alabama. "Poole, supra, at 544. We only hold that convictions of these crimes do not result in disqualifying a jury for cause." Prior to a fourth trial, the appellant filed a petition for a writ of mandamus, claiming that a fourth trial would violate his due process rights and double jeopardy. YouTubes privacy policy is available here and YouTubes terms of service is available here. There his beaten body hung from the tree until all life left it. 2d at 231. Born in 25 Sep 1861 and died in 15 Jul 1927 Epes, Alabama Josephus Marion Anderson I Skip to main content Home Memorials Cemeteries Famous Contribute Register Sign In Register Sign In Memorial updated successfully. Frazier v. State, 528 So. Guilt should be directed to the criminals of the crimes, not a rehash of HISTORY that most of us know. 2d 777, 786 (Ala.Cr.App.1985), judgment affirmed by Ex parte Wilhite, 485 So. Jones v. State, 469 So. Until i researched. Both witnesses replied that they recalled what the robber looked like *1370 by viewing him during the robbery of the bank rather than from viewing any photographs. There are a number of Birminghamians that would like to use our history as a brand to promote how Birmingham has impacted the world. Donald was beaten to death and his body hanged in a tree. The evidence before us reveals that the jury was not prejudiced against appellant and therefore we find no error in the refusal of the trial judge to grant the motion for a change of venue. Gen., for appellee. 500 So. I welcome your comments. He also offered to allow the defense counsel the right to continue to cross-examine the witness as much as he deemed necessary. (Opt out at any time). Hicks v. Wainwright, 633 F.2d 1146 (5th Cir. Appellant's photograph also had his name written on the back of the picture. The appellant concedes in brief that there is no indication from the record that the State used its peremptory challenges to systematically exclude blacks from the jury, which was comprised of ten whites and four blacks, as prohibited under the doctrine of Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S. Ct. 1712, 90 L. Ed. Josephus Anderson was first married to Elizabeth Fencey, She died 10-29-1871. Upon calling him over to his car, Anderson leaned into the vehicle and shot Ballard several times and then ran away. Were we to find prejudice in this case, we would have to totally disregard the presumption in favor of the trial court's ruling and resort to speculation. "Once racial discrimination is shown to have been a `substantial' or `motivating' factor behind enactment of the law, the burden shifts to the law's defenders to demonstrate that the law would have been enacted without this factor." Josephus Anderson, age 79, would die from natural causes in March . This disparate effect persists today. The Michael Donald wrongful-death lawsuit was the first civil liability suit directed specifically at an organization that professed hate based solely on race. Josephus Anderson, age 79, would die from natural causes in March, 2021, while serving his life sentence in Holman prison. You already receive all suggested Justia Opinion Summary Newsletters. Atty. . He again argues that, because of pretrial publicity some two months prior to his trial, the trial should have been postponed to a later date. 2d at 228, quoting the Court of Appeals' finding at 730 F.2d 620. During that trial, a Klan member testified that the motive for the murder of Donald was that The Klan wanted the message to get back to the black people of not just Alabama, but the whole United States, that we would not stand for a black person killing a white police officer and getting away with it. Mrs. Donald won a $7 million judgement against the United Klans of America which bankrupted the organization, effectively leading to the cessation of Ku Klux Klan operations in Alabama. Fields v. State, 424 So. Gast v. State, 232 Ala. 307, 310, 167 So. However, due to our finding above that the jurors were not biased against appellant, we find no abuse of judicial discretion in its denial of appellant's motion for a continuance. A witness, who was standing with her husband in the vicinity of the bank in downtown Birmingham, testified that she observed a police car, with one officer in the car, drive by slowly. Young v. State, 469 So. 2d 878,880 (Ala.Cr.App. The appellant argues that the trial court erred in excepting the victim's widow from the rule. However, we note that defense counsel and the district attorney entered a stipulation which said that two prospective jurors from the venire who stated they could not disregard previous news accounts of the case were dismissed from the venire and replaced by two who were unaware of the surrounding publicity. To ensure that Michael Donald was dead, Henry Hays cut the mans neck three times. Josephus ANDERSON v. STATE. Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Except where inherently prejudicial publicity has so saturated the community as to have a probable impact upon the prospective jurors, the trial court's main responsibility with regard to allegedly prejudicial pre-trial publicity is to determine whether, as the result of such publicity, it is reasonably unlikely that the defendant can secure a fair and impartial trial. During that trial, a Klan member testified that the motive for the murder of Donald was that The Klan wanted the message to get back to the black people of not just Alabama, but the whole United States, that we would not stand for a black person killing a white police officer and getting away with it. Mrs. Donald won a $7 million judgement against the United Klans of America which bankrupted the organization, effectively leading to the cessation of Ku Klux Klan operations in Alabama. A jury, on Feb. 1, found Josephus Anderson, 27, guilty of perjury for lying at an evidentiary hearing where he recanted the testimony he made during Willie Anderson II's, trial in October 2015 . 2d 328 (1969)." 2d 402 (Ala.Cr.App.1984). 2. She identified the *295 appellant as the man who robbed the Jefferson Federal Savings and Loan Association. *294 Douglas H. Scofield and William N. Clark, Birmingham, for appellant. 2d 683, 687 (Ala.Cr.App.1985). 2d 666, 674-75 (Ala.Cr.App.1979), affirmed, 391 So. Sign up for our free summaries and get the latest delivered directly to you. In 1981, Josephus Anderson, an African American, was charged with the murder of a white police officer in Birmingham, Alabama while committing a robbery. In 1984, the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the United Klans of America. Ala.Code 15-2-20 (1975). App.1986), quoting Johnson v. State, 378 So. In addition to the arguments already raised, the appellant claims that the trial court erred in denying his motion for continuance on the basis of newly discovered witnesses and on the basis of pre-trial publicity; in failing to grant his motion for mistrial on the basis of the relationship between Lula White and the victim's widow; in the denial of his motion for a mistrial after repeated violations of the trial court's order to prohibit filming of the jury by the news media. Officer Middleton identified appellant as the fleeing man. Sergeant Albert Eugene Ballard, the victim, was in uniform on the day in question. Hollars University of Alabama Press, $24.95 Reviewed by SCOTTY E. KIRKLAND Correspondent In 1979, Sgt. Furthermore, the trial judge explained that this question was merely a string of other questions which he asked as part of his introductory remarks to the jury in order to make them aware of the type of question which they might be asked. However, this court has recently quoted the pertinent language from Dickerson in Barton v. State, 494 So. The killing had occurred in Birmingham, Alabama, but the trial had been moved to Mobile, Alabama. In view of the totality of the circumstances, we do not find the in-court identification of the appellant tainted by the exhibition of his photographs to witnesses Tapscott and Hall. The appellant complains that he was convicted solely on the basis of circumstantial evidence and that this evidence failed to exclude every reasonable hypothesis except that of the guilt of the appellant. State ex rel. Born in 28 May 1905 and died in 19 Oct 1979 Epes, Alabama Josephus Marion "Buster" Anderson Jr. Ms. Tapscott stated that Shannon Hill gave the robber some rolls of change and "marked" money from her teller drawer. In 1981, Josephus Anderson, an African American charged with the murder of a white policeman in Birmingham, Alabama, during an armed robbery, was tried in Mobile, where the case had been moved in a change of venue. A marked police car pulled up beside the suspect at the motel and the suspect shot at this vehicle. Officer Middleton testified that he pulled up beside a person at Second Alley and 13th Street who fit the description of the robbery suspect which he heard over the radio. In Cochran, the Alabama Supreme Court affirmed the trial court's decision because an "adequate substitute" was available in that one of the attorneys who had represented him throughout his litigation "represented him from the preliminary hearing through the third trial." Although the appellant argues that these statutes have no application in his case, because the offense occurred prior to their enactment, the defendant's trial took place after its enactment, and therefore the statute applies to this case. During voir dire examination of witnesses Tapscott and Hill outside the presence of the jury, each was asked if she had an independent recollection of the description of the robber without having seen any photographs. I'm hit bad. [5] 2d 406 (Ala.Cr.App.1981); Weaver v. State, 401 So. 2d 142 (1971). BTW, multiple cities have a similar history, but they are looking forward to developing a better world for their citizens. Section 12-16-60, Code of Alabama (1975), as amended in 1978, reads in pertinent part: The constitutionality of this subsection and its mandatory application to a prospective juror, has not been examined and, in light of the finding in Hunter that denying the vote to persons convicted of certain crimes, including "any crime involving moral turpitude" is unconstitutional, we feel that the constitutionality of this requirement should be explored. Gen., Patricia E. Guthrie, Asst. It is clear that the appellant has not made the requisite showing in order to prove that he was deprived of his right to compulsory process as a result of a denial of his motion for continuance. On December 18, 1979, the Honorable William N. Clark was appointed to represent appellant in this cause. The suspect turned and fired at the officers and then ran into the area of the Southern Motor Inn Motel. 1 Div. at 545. He described appellant as wearing a leather cap with a small brim, a patchwork leather jacket, a light blue knit striped sweater and said he *1367 was carrying a yellow sack. There she assisted Officer Bearden record the serial numbers of the money and travelers checks that had been recovered from appellant. Two additional jurors who stated they had no previous knowledge of the case replaced those jurors who were struck for cause. Comment document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id", "a335a7e53203c7163c7b738df9e3e964" );document.getElementById("bf6925fc2a").setAttribute( "id", "comment" ); Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. 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