State v. Hough

COPELAND, Justice.

By his second assignment of error, defendant contends that the trial judge erred in denying his motion to quash the indictment returned by the grand jury and to quash the petit jury venire on the grounds that the method of juror selection in Union County results in a significant under-representation of blacks 1 in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments. These contentions are without merit. We shall discuss defendant’s Fourteenth Amendment equal protection claim first.

A defendant is not entitled to demand a proportionate number of his race on the jury which tries…