George W. Preston v. John E. Mandeville, Etc.

GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

The initial history of this case appears in the opinion on a prior appeal, Preston v. Mandeville, 428 F.2d 1392 (5th Cir. 1970). Negro plaintiffs had claimed racial discrimination in compiling and maintaining the Mobile County jury roll. The District Court had found that the overall population of persons of jury age was 70.7% whites — 29.3% blacks, while the .jury roll was 84% whites- — 16% blacks, and had considered this statistical disparity to be insufficient to prove the charge of racial discrimination. The Court of Appeals reversed, holding that the disparity,…