State v. . Sims

Exceptive assignments of error Nos. 1, 2 and 3 assail the court’s action in overruling the defendant’s motion made in apt time to quash the bill of indictment for the reason that women had been excluded from the jury list.

The court found as facts that women were not placed upon the jury lists in Guilford County and that women were systematically excluded from said lists, even though they may be of good moral character and of sufficient intelligence and may own both real and personal property in said county.

The defendant states in his brief, “Whether this action (the overruling of the motion…