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AVERY v. GEORGIA.

No. 648.

345 U.S. 559 (1953)

AVERY v. GEORGIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 25, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank M. Gleason argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.

M. H. Blackshear, Jr., Deputy Assistant Attorney General of Georgia, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Eugene Cook, Attorney General, Lamar W. Sizemore, Assistant Attorney General, and Paul Webb.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE VINSON delivered the opinion of the Court.

Petitioner was tried for rape in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia. He was convicted and sentenced to death. The Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed after overruling petitioner's contention that the jury which convicted him had been selected by a means repugnant to the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.1 We granted certiorari to review this claim. 345...

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