STATE v. WRIGHT

No. 68SC70.

162 S.E.2d 56 (1968)

1 N.C. App. 479

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

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

July 10, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. W. Bruton, Atty. Gen., and Ralph Moody, Deputy Atty. Gen., for the State.

John H. Harmon, New Bern, J. LeVonne Chambers, Charlotte, Romallus O. Murphy, Raleigh, and James Lanning, Charlotte, for defendants appellants.


PARKER, Judge.

Defendants' first assignment of error is to the action of the trial court in denying their motions to quash the bills of indictment against them because of racial discrimination in the composition of the Grand Jury which indicted them. A similar question was considered by the Supreme Court of North Carolina in the recent case of State v. Yoes, 271 N.C. 616, 157 S.E.2d 386. In that case...

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