York v. United States

Appellant was convicted by a jury and sentenced on September 5, 1946, in the Western District of Missouri, under 18 U.S.C.A. § 408, for having transported in interstate commerce a stolen motor vehicle, knowing it to have been stolen. He took no appeal from the conviction but entered upon the service of his sentence.

On May 19, 1947, he filed the present motion to vacate the sentence, on the ground that women had been intentionally and systematically excluded from the petit jury by which he was tried. This was the first time he had undertaken to raise the question. The trial court denied the…