Lewis v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of, first district, Hinds county. Hon. Robert L. Bullard, Judge. Lewis, appellant, a negro, was indicted, tried and convicted of robbery, sentenced to the penitentiary for eight years, and appealed to the supreme court. The opinion of the court sufficiently states the facts. The court below erred in not sustaining appellant’s motion to quash the indictment.
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From the circuit court of, first district, Hinds county. Hon. Robert L. Bullard, Judge. Lewis, appellant, a negro, was indicted, tried and convicted of robbery, sentenced to the penitentiary for eight years, and appealed to the supreme court. The opinion of the court sufficiently states the facts. The court below erred in not sustaining appellant’s motion to quash the indictment. Testimony was offered upon the hearing of the motion, and it was shown by appellant’s affidavit that there was race discrimination resulting to his prejudice inasmuch as nqgroes were not upon the grand or petit…
1Opinion of the CourtMayes, J.
This appellant is a negro, and was indicted in the first district of Hinds county on the charge of robbery, convicted, *507and given a sentence of eight years in the penitentiary. A review of this record leaves no doubt as to the propriety of his conviction on the evidence adduced by the state.
Before the trial a motion was made by the counsel for the appellant to quash the indictment on the ground that appellant had been discriminated against, in that no negroes were on the jury. When this motion was made, some testimony was taken in attempted support of it; but the testimony utterly fails to…
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