State Ex Rel. Passer v. County Board of Renville County

Lees, C.

The county attorney of Renville county informed the county board at its annual meeting in January, 1927, that he had several carnal knowledge cases to be tried at the May, 1927, term of the district court, and did not believe that women would wish to sit as jurors in cases of that kind. He recommended that the board refrain from placing the names of women upon the jury lists for 1927 then about to be prepared. In response to the recommendation, a motion was put and carried providing “that no names of women shall be placed upon the jury lists now to be prepared for 1927.” The grand and…