Legal Opinion
State v. Hall
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided June 13, 1966No. 44220PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
187 So.2d 861 (1966)
STATE of Mississippi
v.
Mrs. Virginia HALL.
No. 44220.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
June 13, 1966.
Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., by G. Garland Lyell, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellant.
Mitchell & Rogers, Tupelo, for appellee.
JONES, Justice.
The State appeals from an order of the Circuit Court of Lee County quashing an indictment for murder returned by the grand jury of that county against the appellee. The sole ground of the motion was that under Mississippi Code Annotated section 1762 (1956) women were excluded from jury service and such denied to appellee the equal…
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