Court Opinion

ID: 9420952
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 22:56:25.766649+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:27.784899
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Reed,
concurring.
I concur in the reversal. My concurrence is based on the undisputed facts presented by the record. The facts that make a prima facie case of discrimination in the selection of petitioner’s jury are as follows. The population of Fulton County is 691,797. Negroes comprise 25% or 165,814. The tax receiver’s digest from which the jury list is selected has 105,035 white citizens and 17,736 Negroes — 14%. The jury list for the year in question had 20,509 white and 1,115 Negroes — 5%. From that list a number, 150 to 200, were drawn for service on each of the divisions of the court. Evidently these were for a week or a term’s service. The venire from which the trial jury for Avery was selected numbered 60. All were white.
These facts establish a prima facie case of discrimination which the record does not rebut.