STATE v. WRIGHT

No. 84.

163 S.E.2d 897 (1968)

274 N.C. 380

STATE v. Bertha Mae WRIGHT, Madeline Pearsoll, Sarah Midgette, Phoebe Pearsoll and Frances Marshall, Cases #504 and #513.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

October 30, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen., I. Wade Bruton and Deputy Atty. Gen., Ralph Moody, for the State.

J. LeVonne Chambers, James E. Ferguson II and James E. Lanning, Charlotte, for defendant appellants.


LAKE, Justice.

The two questions for this Court are: (1) Did the trial court err in denying the motions to quash the bills of indictment made on the ground that members of the Negro race were systematically excluded from the jury list from which were selected the grand juries which indicted these defendants? (2) Did the trial judge err in denying the defendants' request "to go into the jury box," at the hearing on the motion to quash, to determine "the numerical breakdown...

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