Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Welosky
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 9, 1931PublishedCited by 147 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRttgg, C.J.
As the jurors were about to be empaneled for the trial of this complaint, the defendant filed a chair lenge to the array. Issue of law was joined thereon. Commonwealth v. Walsh, 124 Mass. 32, 35. Provident Institution for Savings v. Burnham, 128 Mass. 458, 461. The ground on which that challenge rests is that there were no women on the lists from which the jurors were drawn. The contention in support of the challenge raises two inquiries: (1) whether under the laws of the Commonwealth the names of women ought to have been placed upon the jury lists; and (2) whether by such exclusion the…
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