STATE v. KING

No. 10.

264 S.E.2d 40 (1980)

299 N.C. 707

STATE of North Carolina v. Ernest Glenn KING a/k/a Ernest Lee King.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 1, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Leon Moore, Reidsville, and W. Osmond Smith, III, Yanceyville, for defendant.

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Asst. Atty. Gen. Henry T. Rosser, Raleigh, for the State.


COPELAND, Justice.

Defendant is black and he contends that the trial judge erred in denying his motion to dismiss the indictments since members of his race were systematically excluded from the jury list for grand and petit juries in Caswell County. Defendant's argument is that the names for the jury list were not chosen systematically as required by G.S. 9-2 since every fourth name from the tax list was taken only from the letters A, B, C, D and M rather than from...

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