Talley v. State

Jordan, Presiding Judge.

As restated in the briefs for the *366appellants the evidence adduced at the hearing discloses that the grand and traverse jury lists of Spalding County were revised in final form in August of 1968 by a commission composed of five white men and one Negro man. These lists show 369 names for grand jurors and 1,276 names for traverse jurors, of which, as identified by the local head of the NAACP, 65 names on the grand jury list were Negroes, and 151 names on the traverse jury list were Negroes, i.e., 18.1% Negroes on the grand jury list and 11.8% on the traverse jury list.1…