Billy Homer Ferguson v. A. L. Dutton, Warden, Georgia State Prison, Reidsville, Ga.

Appellant, Billy Homer Ferguson, a white man, presently under sentence of life imprisonment as a result of his conviction for first degree murder, here appeals from the District Court’s denial of his petition for habeas corpus. Although several other substantial consti-tutional questions are raised, the gravamen of Appellant’s complaint concerns the systematic exclusion of Blacks from the grand jury that indicted him and the petit jury that convicted him.

Consistent with the then controlling rule in this Circuit 1 the District Court held that Ferguson, a white man, did not have standing to…