People v. White

Plaintiff in error, (defendant) Luhemitt White, was indicted for the crime of murder in the city court of East St. Louis. On January 24, 1934, his cause came before a jury; he was found guilty, and sentenced to ninety-nine years in the penitentiary. He prosecutes this writ of error, claiming that he was not tried within four months of his commitment to jail for said offense; that he had no counsel at the time he was arraigned; that the counsel appointed to defend him was incompetent; and that there were no women or Negroes upon the grand jury that indicted him, nor upon the petit jury that…