Court Opinion

ID: 9763002
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 02:35:09.358166+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:55:35.308136
License: Public Domain

GALBREATH, Judge
(concurring).
I concur completely with Judge Walker’s opinion. The law that failure to make an objection to the racial composition of a Grand Jury is waived unless raised by an appropriate pretrial motion is too well settled for this Court to disturb. I recognize the irrationality of the law as it applies to ancient cases of this type. No lawyer in this State would have ever thought of objecting to the fact that Negroes did not serve on the Grand Jury in Tennessee in 1948, just as scarcely anyone objected to the complete segregation of all public and private facilities of any kind in the State until the next decade. But the law is as set forth in Judge Walker’s opinion; and it must be changed, if ever it is (and I personally believe it will be soon or late), by an authority higher than this Court.