State v. Adcock

BRANCH, Chief Justice.

Defendant assigns as error the failure of the trial judge to quash the indictment charging him with murder and to quash the petit jury panel. He contends that the grand and petit jurors were selected in a discriminatory manner and did not represent a cross section of the community. By this assignment of error he also argues that the trial judge erred by refusing to order at State’s expense an update analysis of Durham County jury panel and master jury list.

In support of the first portion of this assignment of error, defendant relies upon Taylor v. Louisiana, 419 U.S. 522…