State v. Young

Ritz, Judge:

Upon an indictment charging him with the murder of Gas-ton Booth the defendant was, by the criminal court of Raleigh county, tried, convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment. The circuit court of said county refused to review the judgment of conviction, and this writ of error is prosecuted thereto. The defendant is a negro, and before pleading to the indictment he tendered what is called a motion to quash the *716indictment upon the ground that he was denied the equal protection of the law, in that persons of the Negro race were excluded from the grand jury which found the…