Brownfield v. South Carolina

This case comes here by writ of error to the Supreme Court of South Carolina. The plaintiff in error has been convicted of murder,' and the error alleged is that the grand jury was composed wholly of white persons, and that all negroes, although constituting four fifths of the population and of the registered voters of the county, were excluded on account of their race and color. The plaintiff in error is a negro, and he says that in this way he has been denied the equal protection of the laws and of the civil rights guaranteed to him by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Carter…