Johnson v. Sanford

The appellant was convicted in 1944 in Louisiana. He now seeks release on habeas corpus because women were intentionally and systematically excluded from the juries, both grand and petit, whereby he contends he did not have a constitutional indictment or trial.

It put strain enough on the Constitution to horn that Negroes are entitled to have Negroes put in the jury boxes. It is too much to hold that men have a constitutional right to have women jurors. By the common law juries not so constituted. The statute law of the United States is that jurors in the federal courts shall have the same…