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UNITED STATES v. WOOD

No. 34.

299 U.S. 123 (1936)

57 S.Ct. 177

81 L.Ed. 78

UNITED STATES v. WOOD.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 7, 1936.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Assistant Attorney General McMahon, with whom Solicitor General Reed and Messrs. William W. Barron and Warner W. Gardner were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. William E. Leahy, with whom Messrs. Robert I. Miller and William J. Hughes, Jr., were on the brief, for respondent.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case presents the question of the constitutional validity of the Act of Congress of August 22, 1935, c. 605, 49 Stat. 682, prescribing qualifications for service as jurors in the District of Columbia, as applied to criminal prosecutions.

The respondent was convicted of petit larceny in the Police Court of the District and was sentenced to imprisonment...

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