JOHNSON v. SANFORD

No. 12214.

167 F.2d 738 (1948)

JOHNSON v. SANFORD.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 28, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rubein V. Johnson, in pro per.

J. Ellis Mundy, U. S. Atty., and Harvey H. Tisinger, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Atlanta, Ga., for appellee.

Before SIBLEY, McCORD, and LEE, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

The appellant was convicted in 1944 in Louisiana. He now seeks release on habeas corpus because women were intentionally and systematically excluded from the juries, both grand and petit, whereby he contends he did not have a constitutional indictment or trial.

It put strain enough on the Constitution to hold that Negroes are entitled to have Negroes put in the jury boxes. It is too much to hold that men have a constitutional right to have women...

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