Williams v. State

HUNSTEIN, Chief Justice.

The State is seeking death sentences against appellant Floyd Wayne Williams in connection with the deaths of two persons. This Court granted appellant’s application for interim review to consider pre-trial whether the list from which appellant’s traverse jury will be selected was composed in an unconstitutional manner.

The evidence presented in the trial court showed that the jury commission in Clayton County, pursuant to this Court’s directive in the Unified Appeal Procedure, attempted to balance the percentages of various cognizable groups of persons on the traverse…