Peters v. Kiff

Petitioner alleges that Negroes were, systematically excluded from the grand jury that indicted him and the petit jury that convicted him of burglary in the Superior Court of Muscogee County, Georgia. In consequence he contends that his conviction is invalid under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. Because he is not himself a Negro, the respondent contends that he has hot suffered any unconstitutional discrimination, and that his conviction' must stand. ' On that ground, the Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of his petition for federal habeas corpus.…