Jones v. State

Cook, Justice.

Prior to the trial of the case the defendant filed a plea in abatement asserting that the indictment was returned by a grand jury selected from a jury list which had been compiled in an illegal manner and in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, in that the jury commissioners of Bibb County intentionally and systematically excluded eligible and qualified Negro citizens from the jury list. In the fourth assignment of the enumeration of errors it is contended that the trial court erred in the denial of this plea. In the fifth assignment it…