Gordon v. State

Upon this record, to affirm this case would be a vain and futile thing. The Supreme Court of the United States has so said in no uncertain terms.

Defendant was convicted of rape and sentenced to death. He is a negro. The victim was white.

The only assignment of error presented to us is the overruling by the lower court of a motion to quash the indictment and the special panel because of an alleged systematic discrimination against negroes.

Proof was taken and it was shown by men who had lived in the county for over 60 and 70 years and occupied official positions that, within their memory, no…