Haywood Patterson was one of the Scottsboro Boys (See Powell v. Alabama). The case of the Scottsboro Boys arose in Scottsboro, Alabama during the 1930s when nine black youths ranging in age from twelve to twenty were falsely Powell v Alabama was a United States Supreme Court decision which determined that in a capital trial, the Defendant must be given He was falsely accused of raping Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. [1] He wrote a book about his experience, Scottsboro Boy (ISBN 1597401021).