Case Name: John Eccles v. Commonwealth of Virginia
Court: Supreme Court of Virginia
Jurisdiction: Virginia
Decision Date: 1972-03-06
Citations: 212 Va. 679
Docket Number: Record No. 7888
Parties: John Eccles v. Commonwealth of Virginia.
Judges: 
Reporter: Virginia Reports
Volume: 212
Pages: 679–680

Head Matter:
Richmond
John Eccles v. Commonwealth of Virginia.
March 6, 1972.
Record No. 7888.
Present, Snead, C.J., Carrico, Gordon, Harrison, Cochran and Harman, JJ.
John C. Lowe; F. Guthrie Gordon, III; Lowe and Gordon, on petition for plaintiff in error.
/. T. Cambios, Commonwealth's Attorney for the City of Charlottesville; Andrew P. Miller, Attorney General; Reno S. Harp, 111, Assistant Attorney General, on brief in opposition and motion for defendant in error.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
John Eccles was tried by a jury in the Corporation Court of the City of Charlottesville and found guilty of selling marijuana. By judgment order entered on the verdict on February 5, 1971, he was fined $500 and sentenced to confinement in the State Penitentiary for three years. We granted a writ of error to the judgment order limited to two assignments of error, one relating to denial of access to the master jury list and the other relating to admissibility of evidence.
Eccles contends that the trial court erred in refusing to give him access to the master jury list for the purpose of determining whether the jury selection procedures required by law and by the Constitu tion of the United States and the Constitution of Virginia were complied with in selecting a jury to try him.
The Attorney General has conceded that the trial court erred in this respect and has consented that the judgment of the trial court be reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial if the Commonwealth be so advised. Accordingly, without passing on the assignment of error challenging the admissibility of evidence, we hold that the trial court committed reversible error in denying Eccles access to the master jury list from which his venire was selected and we remand the case for a new trial if the Commonwealth be so advised.
Reversed, and remanded.