Williamson v. State

CATES, Presiding Judge.

Robbery: sentence, ten years imprisonment.

I

As we understand the appellant’s arguments, he complains that the Etowah County Jury Commission practised an invidious discrimination by systematically excluding potential jurors under the age of thirty five. He says only 2.4% of the jury roll was embraced in the thirty five and under bracket.

However, such statistical claim bears further scrutiny in that not all of the nearly seven thousand jurors had their birth dates shown on the roll.

We postulate two obstacles which keep us from accepting either the right of the appellant to…