Glass v. State

Quillian, Justice.

Lela Mae Glass was charged in the City Court of Thomasville with the offense of pointing a gun at another. The defendant filed a timely written motion challenging the array of the traverse jury on the ground that the systematic, arbitrary and deliberate exclusion of members of the Negro race from serving as jurors on the city court was a violation of the defendant’s rights “as provided for under the equal protection clause and the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment” to the United States Constitution. After hearing evidence, the trial judge overruled the motion…