WATTS v. STATE

No. 44236.

196 So.2d 79 (1967)

Thomas WATTS v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 6, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Jess Brown, Denison Ray, Jackson, for appellant.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., by R. Hugo Newcomb, Sr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.


BRADY, Justice:

Appellant was tried and convicted on April 21, 1966, in Justice of the Peace Court, District One, of Claiborne County, Mississippi on charges of reckless driving and carrying a concealed weapon. On appeal to the Circuit Court of Claiborne County appellant filed a motion to quash the venire on the ground that Negroes had been systematically and arbitrarily excluded from jury service in said county in violation of appellant's rights under the Fourteenth...

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