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STATE v. BRINSON

No. 53.

177 S.E.2d 398 (1970)

277 N.C. 286

STATE of North Carolina v. Clark BRINSON and Johnny Johnson.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 18, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Parker & Dickens, by William F. Dickens, Jr., Enfield, for defendant appellant Johnson.

Charlie D. Clark, Jr., Roanoke Rapids, for defendant appellant Brinson.

Robert Morgan, Atty. Gen., Burley B. Mitchell, Jr., and Charles D. Lloyd, Staff Attys., Raleigh, for the State.

HUSKINS, Justice:

Defendants' first assignment of error is based on denial of their motion to quash the bills of indictment. Defendants are Negroes and allege that members of their race had been systematically excluded from the grand jury.

The question of systematic exclusion of Negroes from grand juries has been repeatedly considered by this Court, most recently in State v. Spencer, 276 N.C. 535, 173 S.E.2d...

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