Tennon v. State

Hugh H. Term on, III, appeals from his conviction of murder in Crisp Superior Court and sentence to life imprisonment.

1. He enumerates as error the denial by the trial court of his motion to quash the indictment and his challenge to the array of grand and traverse jurors. He contends that the grand jury list, from which the grand jury panel that indicted him was drawn, was composed of a disproportionately high number of white males. He also contends that the traverse jury list from which the trial jury was selected, was also illegally composed.

First we consider the challenge to the grand…