Hicks v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Phillips Circuit Court; J. M. Jackson, Judge; 1. Appellants were discriminated against on account of their color and no colored man sat upon the jury or was summoned to serve. 2. The verdict is plainly against the evidence. 107 Atl. 554. 3. The verdict is defective.
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Appeal from Phillips Circuit Court; J. M. Jackson, Judge; 1. Appellants were discriminated against on account of their color and no colored man sat upon the jury or was summoned to serve. 2. The verdict is plainly against the evidence. 107 Atl. 554. 3. The verdict is defective. Defendants are not guaranteed under our Constitution, nor that of the United States, a trial by members of his own race, but only a fair and impartial trial by a jury who are unbiased and unprejudicial without regard to color or race. 100 U. S. 322. The panel should have been challenged, and as he did not, he can not…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
Appellant Frank Hicks was indicted for mnrder in the first degree, alleged to have been committed by shooting one Clinton Lee, and at his trial was convicted of that crime. Appellants, Frank Moore, Ed Hicks,, J. E. Knox, Ed Coleman, and Paul Hall, were indicted for the same crime, and were tried together, and were all convicted of murder in the first degree. Appeals have been perfected from both judgments, and as the questions raised are substantially the same in each case we dispose of both with one opinion.
It is insisted as ground for reversal in each case that appellants, who are all men…
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