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Alabama Court Reappointment, Amendment 1 (1958)

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The Alabama Court Reappointment, Amendment 1, also known as Amendment 1, was on the ballot in Alabama on May 6, 1958, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was defeated. The amendment proposed to amend the constitution. The amendment proposed to re-appropriate the Court of Appeals as the Court of Criminal Appeals, whose jurisdiction will apply to criminal and quasi-criminal cases of any degree.[1]

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Alabama Amendment 1 (May 1958)
ResultVotesPercentage
Defeatedd No157,63072.84%
Yes58,76627.16%

Election results via: Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1959

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