Court Opinion

ID: 9578185
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:42:33.068309+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:25:04.711960
License: Public Domain

Head, Justice,
concurring specially. There is neither constitutional nor statutory authority for the use of different colors of paper in placing the names of colored jurors in the jury box. This practice could serve only one purpose, to wit, discrimination in the drawing of the names of colored jurors from the box. Prima facie such practice is wrong and should be discontinued at the first opportunity to revise the jury list. The testimony of Judge Moore as to the method in which the jurors are drawn is sufficient to show that the defendant was not harmed in this case, since there was no discrimination against colored jurors in the selection of the traverse jurors.