State v. Jones

Richards, C. J.:

Since the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States granting the right of franchise to women, the question of their eligibility for jury duty has arisen a number of times in both the Federal and State Courts. It has been recently considered by the Supreme Court of the United States in two very interesting and able decisions. Ballard et al. v. United States, 329 U. S. 187, 67 S. Ct. 261; Fay v. People of State of New York, 332 U. S. 261, 67 S. Ct. 1613.

' The qualifications for both grand and petit jurors in the Federal Courts have been fixed…