State v. Inman

PeR Cueiam.

The two indictments in this case, one charging the defendant with an assault on Emily W. Smith on 26 February 1963, with intent to commit rape, a violation of G.S. 14-22, .and the other charging defendant and two other persons on the same date with robbery of $34 -in money from the person of Emily W. Smith, were consolidated for trial.

Defendant, a Negro, before pleading to the two indictments, made a motion to quash the indictments on the ground that Negroes are systematically excluded from serving on grand and petit juries in the .superior court of Mecklenburg County, and were…