Cain v. State

The prosecuting attorney of the Third Judicial Circuit filed information in the circuit court of Jackson county charging appellant, a negro, with the crime of robbery. Appellant filed a motion to quash this information on the ground that 15 per cent, of the population of Jackson county were negroes, of which a considerable number were poll tax payers possessing the qualifications of jurors as prescribed by the laws of the state of Arkansas; that during the year 1943, and for many years prior thereto, negroes had been intentionally'and systematically excluded from service on the jury…