Case Name: COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, Appellee, v. Leah B. MORRIS, Hollis B. Morris, Herman Trent and Frank Brown, Appellants
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1966-01-21
Citations: 357 F.2d 107
Docket Number: No. 9587
Parties: COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, Appellee, v. Leah B. MORRIS, Hollis B. Morris, Herman Trent and Frank Brown, Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 357
Pages: 107–109

Head Matter:
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, Appellee, v. Leah B. MORRIS, Hollis B. Morris, Herman Trent and Frank Brown, Appellants.
No. 9587.
United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.
Argued Jan. 11, 1965.
Decided Jan. 21, 1966.
Sobeloff and J. Spencer Bell, Circuit Judges, dissented.
S. W. Tucker, Richmond, Va. and Anthony G. Amsterdam, Washington, D. C. (Henry L. Marsh, III, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellants.
J. Segar Gravatt, Special Counsel for the Commonwealth of Virginia (Thomas Stark, III, Commonwealth’s Attorney of Amelia County, on brief), for appellee.
Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and SOBELOFF, BOREMAN, BRYAN and J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judges, sitting en banc.

Opinion:
HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge:
The defendants, charged in the state court with assault and battery upon two white men sought to remove their cases under Title 28 U.S.C.A. § 1443(1). The sole ground is a claim of jury discrimination with which we dealt in Commonwealth of Virginia v. Wallace, 4 Cir., 357 F.2d 105, decided this day.
For the reasons there stated, remand of these cases to the state court was proper.
Affirmed.
. The incident had no other racial connotation.