Ex Parte Virginia
Supreme Court of the United States
Petition for a writ of habeas corpus. - The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Strong
The petitioner, J. D. Coles, was arrested, and he is now held in custody under an indictment found against him in the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Virginia. The indictment alleged that he, being a judge of •the county court of Pittsylvania County of that State, and an officer charged by law with the selection .of jurors to serve in the circuit and county courts of said county in the year 1878, did then and there exclude and fail to select as grand and petit jurors certain citizens of said county of Pittsylvania, of African race and black color, said citizens…
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