Commonwealth v. Johnson

JUDGE COFER

delivered the opinion of the court.

Our statute provides that ‘ ‘ no person shall be qualified to serve as a grand juryman unless he be a white citizen and a housekeeper of the county in which he may be called to serve, and over the age of twenty-one years;” and that ‘‘no person shall be a competent juryman for the trial of criminal, penal, or civil cases in any court unless he be a white citizen, at least twenty-one years -of age, a housekeeper, sober, temperate, discreet, and of good demeanor.”

In the recent case of Strauder v. The State of West Virginia (100 U. S. S., 6303), the…