State v. Goree

I believe that Bill of Exceptions No. One, which was reserved when the trial court overruled defendants’ Motion to Quash the Petit Jury Panel, is with merit and is dispositive of this prosecution.

The motion was based on the alleged ground that in selecting the names of persons to be placed in the General Venire Box (approximately three hundred), from which the Petit Jury which tried the instant prosecution was drawn, the Jury Commission for the Parish of Lincoln had systematically excluded Negroes, particularly Negroes from the Town of Grambling. It was contended that the alleged exclusion…