Legal Opinion

Kemp v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided June 9, 1970No. 25804PublishedCited by 31 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Felton, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction and a life sentence for the crime of rape.

1. The court did not err in its judgment denying the defendant’s motion challenging the array of the grand and traverse juries, since no prima facie case of racially motivated systematic exclusion was established, under the holding in Whitus v. Georgia, 385 U. S. 545 (86 SC 1761, 16 LE2d 895) and Jones v. Georgia, 389 U. S. 24 (88 SC 4, 19 LE2d 25), by the evidence, which showed that the jury lists from which the defendant’s grand and traverse juries were drawn were compiled in accordance…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Whitus v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. Jones v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  3. Roach v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1966
  4. Bland v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1953
  5. Mathis v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1968

3Cited by31 opinions

  1. Ross v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1974
  2. State v. GrahamSupreme Court of Georgia · 1980
  3. Bradham v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1979
  4. Hill v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1976
  5. Bradley v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2013

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