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BREEDLOVE v. SUTTLES

No. 9.

302 U.S. 277 (1937)

58 S.Ct. 205

82 L.Ed. 252

BREEDLOVE v. SUTTLES, TAX COLLECTOR.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 6, 1937.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. J. Ira Harrelson and Henry G. Van Veen, with whom Mr. Arthur Garfield Hays was on the brief, for appellant.

Messrs. W.S. Northcutt and E. Harold Sheats, with whom Mr. Chas. B. Shelton was on the brief, for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court.

A Georgia statute provides that there shall be levied and collected each year from every inhabitant of the State between the ages of 21 and 60 a poll tax of one dollar, but that the tax shall not be demanded from the blind or from females who do not register for voting. Georgia Code, 1933, § 92-108. The state constitution declares that to entitle a person to register...

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