State v. . Daniels

Tbe prisoner was charged with tbe murder of F. G. Simmons, and in apt time filed a plea in abatement and moved tbe Court to quash tbe indictment for that:

1. Tbe list of thirty-six jurors drawn by tbe County Commissioners of Jones County, from which tbe grand jury was drawn, and which found tbe bill of indictment, was revised with partiality, unjustly and purposely against competent persons of tbe negro race, to which tbe prisoner belongs, on account of tbe race or color of such persons.

Tbe officers whose duty it was to revise tbe jury lists and to draw tbe panel to be summoned, from which tbe…