State v. King

COPELAND, Justice.

Defendant is black and he contends that the trial judge erred in denying his motion to dismiss the indictments since members of his race were systematically excluded from the jury list for grand and petit juries in Caswell County. Defendant’s argument is that the names for the jury list were not chosen systematically as required by G.S. 9-2 since every fourth name from the tax list was taken only from the letters A, B, C, D and M rather than from the entire alphabet.

G.S. 9-2 provides in relevant part that:

“In preparing the list, the jury commission shall use the tax lists of…