Rev. J. A. Salary v. John C. Wilson, Jr., Ada Pearl Smith v. Honorable Gardner F. Goodwyn, Jr.

GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

In these appeals we consider again challenges asserted on constitutional grounds against jury selection procedures employed in the state circuit court in Jefferson County, Alabama.

These cases are offspring of Billingsley v. Clayton, 359 F.2d 13 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 385 U.S. 841, 87 S.Ct. 92, 17 L.Ed.2d 74 (1966), in which this court reviewed the jury selection system employed in Jefferson County and in an en banc decision concluded that the plaintiffs therein had failed to prove systematic exclusion of Negroes. Jefferson County constitutes the Tenth Judicial…