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Samuel S. Leibowitz, chief counsel for the Scottsboro boys, announces that he is now in possession of seven affidavits deposing testimony given by four hundred residents of Morgan County, to whose court the change of venue will bring the Scottsboro case late this month. The testimony, secured by the simple expedient of camouflaging investigators as brush salesmen, shows forth the Jim Crows with every fang aglitter. For example, one mellow judgment runs: "If them lawyers comes here, it will be a one way trip." Many admitted that they had already made up their minds, but "Would conceal...
...Lawyer Leibowitz brought to public attention an already well-known fact, Judge Lowell, sure of a share of the encomium which has been enthusiastically bestowed upon the denouncer of Alabama justice, has gone out of his way to keep the issue on the front page by releasing a Virginia negro facing extradition. While there is obviously much truth in his description of the farcical Southern trial system, Judge Lowell's faith in "Yankee commonsense" is only aggravating a situation which cannot be ameliorated by such a display of Northern sentiment, judicial or otherwise...
...conviction of one Scottsboro (Ala.) Negro on the mortal charge of raping two white girls (TIME, April 17 et ante): indefinite postponement of the trial of the other six defendants; in Decatur, Ala. Grounds: alleged insults to Alabamans by Chief Defense Counsel Samuel S. Leibowitz, creating "sentiment that might not allow a fair trial." Interviewed by a northern newshawk about the Alabama jurors. Leibowitz was quoted as saying, "If you ever saw those creatures; those bigots, whose mouths are slits in their faces, whose eyes pop out at you like frogs, whose chins drip tobacco juice, bewhiskered and filthy...
...State claimed that if there were no Negroes on the Morgan County roll it was because none had sufficient education, "integrity, good character and sound judgment" to qualify. Thereupon, Counsel Leibowitz began bringing in dozens of reputable Negroes who were not on the roll. One was a doctor from the University of Illinois, another a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Howard University...
Next day the defense won and lost a point. Judge Horton ruled that prima facie evidence had been established that the Morgan County jury roll was allwhite. Counsel Leibowitz then moved that Negro talesmen be considered for the present jury, a proposal which brought to horrified Southerners visions of carpetbagging days. The courtroom was tense when Judge Horton softly said: "Motion denied...