HALE v. KENTUCKY

No. 680.

303 U.S. 613 (1938)

HALE v. KENTUCKY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 11, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Charles H. Houston and Leon A. Ransom for petitioner.

Mr. A.E. Funk, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Hubert Meredith Attorney General, of Kentucky, was on the brief, for respondent.


PER CURIAM.

Petitioner, a Negro, was indicted in 1936 for murder in McCracken County, Kentucky. He moved to set aside the indictment upon the ground that the jury commissioners had excluded from the list from which the grand jury was drawn all persons of African descent because of their race and color and thus denied to him the equal protection of the laws in violation of the Constitution of the United States. In support of his motion, he presented an affidavit showing...

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