Hoyt v. Florida

Appellant, a woman, has been convicted in Hillsborough County, Florida, of second degree murder of her husband. On this appeal under 28 U. S. C. § 1257 (2) from the Florida Supreme Court’s affirmance of the judgment of conviction, 119 So. 2d 691, we noted probable jurisdiction, 364 U. S. 930, to consider appellant’s claim that her trial before an all-male jury violated rights assured by the Fourteenth Amendment. The claim is that such jury was the product of a state jury statute which works an unconstitutional exclusion of women from jury service.

The jury law primarily in question is Fla.…