Brown v. State

Eberhardt, Judge.

1. There was no error in denial of the challenge to the array on the ground that the jury had a disproportionate representation of Negroes on it. Defendant’s evidence in support of the challenge utterly failed to disclose any purposeful, intentional or systematic discrimination by the jury commissioners in the selection of names for placing in the jury box. On the contrary, it appears that there was no such discrimination, and that the names were selected in accordance with the law. "[P]roportionate representation of the races is not necessary to guarantee equal protection of…