Rawlins v. Georgia
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
The plaintiffs in error were indicted for murder, tried, and found guilty. Leonard Rawlins was sentenced to the penitentiary for life, and the others were sentenced to be hanged. When the grand jury was organized each of the accused filed a written challenge to the array, on the ground that “while there are in Lowndes County many lawyers, many preachers, ministers, many doctors, many engineers and firemen of railroad trains, and many dentists, as many as ten of each class named, or other large number of each of said class, all.citizens and residents of said county, and being competent and…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Rawlins v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1905
- People v. JewettNew York Supreme Court · 1829
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