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BURNS v. STATE

44437.

119 Ga. App. 678 (1969)

168 S.E.2d 786

BURNS v. THE STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided May 15, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. B. King, for appellant.

Robert W. Reynolds, District Attorney, for appellee.

EBERHARDT, Judge.

1. The challenge to the array of both the grand and the traverse juries was based upon an alleged systematic exclusion of Negroes from the jury box. See Allen v. State, 110 Ga.App. 56 (137 S.E.2d 711). There was voluminous evidence both in support of and in opposition to the challenge.

The jury commissioners of Dougherty County testified that they had worked...

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