Phil Whitus and Leon Davis v. R. P. Balkcom, Jr., Warden, State Penitentiary, Reidsville, Georgia

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1964-06-18

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WISDOM, Circuit Judge. The difficulties this post-conviction ha-beas corpus problem presents inhere in the dilemma in which a Negro defendant is placed when he is brought to trial in a state court in a county where Negroes are systematically excluded from juries. 1 The matrix within which this problem developed is the social structure of the deep South.…

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