Crumb v. State

Atkinson, Presiding Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The Code, § 59-106, 'makes provision for the selection of jurors. In substance it provides that the jury commissioners shall select from the books of the tax receiver “upright and intelligent” men to serve as jurors, and then select from these, not exceeding two-fifths, the most “experienced, intelligent, and upright” to serve as grand jurors.

The accused asserts that over a long period of time Negroes have been purposely and expressly excluded from the jury list solely on account of their race, and that by such systematic and…