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WRIGHT v. SMITH

No. 72-2249.

474 F.2d 349 (1973)

Will WRIGHT, Petitioner-Appellant, v. S. Lamont SMITH, Warden, Georgia State Prison, Reidsville, Georgia, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 14, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward T. M. Garland, Eric Welch, Atlanta, Ga., for petitioner-appellant.

Arthur K. Bolton, Atty. Gen., W. Hensell Harris, Jr., Dorothy T. Beasley, Asst. Attys. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for respondent-appellee.

Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, and THORNBERRY and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.

THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge:

On August 8, 1967, a predominantly white grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, indicted Will Wright, a Negro, for murder. On September 13, 1967, having been convicted by an all-white jury, Wright was sentenced to life imprisonment.1 On this appeal from the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, Wright challenges the composition of his grand and petit juries, alleging that the method...

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