Ross v. State

On State’s Motion for Rehearing

GRAVES, Judge.

In our original opinion herein, this court, as well as many other judges throughout this state, had labored under the impres*129sion that the cases cited in our original opinion had held in effect that the intentional exclusion of negroes upon a grand jury venire would offend against what the Supreme Court of the United States had decided the Federal Constitution meant by “due process of law” as set forth in its Fourteenth Amendment thereto, which reads in part as follows: “ * * * nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property,…