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STATE v. KNIGHT

No. 272-I.

152 S.E.2d 179 (1967)

269 N.C. 100

STATE v. Pirl Willard KNIGHT.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 20, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. T. W. Bruton, Deputy Atty. Gen. Harry W. McGalliard and Staff Attorney Ralph A. White, Jr., Raleigh, for the State.

Stagg & Reynolds, Charlotte, for defendant appellee.

LAKE, Justice.

More than 60 years ago this Court stated clearly that Article I, § 13, of the Constitution of North Carolina, requires the sustaining of a motion to quash an indictment of a Negro who proves that the members of his race have been systematically excluded from the juries of the county in which he has been indicted. State v. Peoples, 131 N.C. 784, 42 S.E. 814. Since that time it has never been doubted by the courts of this State that the provisions...

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