UNITED STATES v. FOREST

No. 27236.

118 F.Supp. 504 (1954)

UNITED STATES v. FOREST et al.

United States District Court E. D. Missouri, E. D.

January 22, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry Richards, U. S. Atty., L. E. Broome & B. Franklin Taylor, Jr., Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., and William D. English, St. Louis, Mo., for plaintiff.

Sydney L. Berger, Evansville, Ind. and R. L. Witherspoon, St. Louis, Mo., for Wm. Sentner.

Mary Kaufman, New York City, for Dorothy Rose Forest and Robert Manewitz.

James Frederick Forest and Marcus Al Murphy, appearing in their own behalf.


HARPER, Judge.

The defendants' challenge to the array and motion to quash the venire and jury list and to dismiss the petit panels drawn therefrom for the trial is based on the contentions that the jury officials (1) intentionally and systematically limited the representation of manual workers to a mere token representation; (2) intentionally and systematically limited the representation of negroes on the jury list; (3) disregarded their affirmative duty to employ...

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