ADAMS v. STATE

No. 58253.

537 So.2d 891 (1989)

James ADAMS v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

January 25, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth J. Rose and Dennis C. Sweet, Jackson, for appellant.

Mike Moore, Atty. Gen. by Deirdre D. McCrory, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, C.J., and ROBERTSON and ANDERSON, JJ.


I.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

This appeal of an armed robbery conviction finds a deputy circuit clerk acting in fundamental disregard of our law regarding eligibility for jury service. Indeed, the clerk took it upon himself to purge from the list of jurors drawn for appellant's trial a substantial number of persons wholly eligible in law to serve. That such persons may have enjoyed a personal privilege to be free to jury duty if they wished to claim...

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