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WARD v. TEXAS

No. 974.

316 U.S. 547 (1942)

62 S.Ct. 1139

86 L.Ed. 1663

WARD v. TEXAS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 1, 1942.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Leon A. Ransom and W. Robert Ming, Jr. for petitioner.

Messrs. Pat Coon, Assistant Attorney General of Texas, and Spurgeon E. Bell, with whom Mr. Gerald C. Mann, Attorney General, was on the brief, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE BYRNES delivered the opinion of the Court.

Petitioner William Ward, a negro, was indicted at the September 1939 term of the District Court of Titus County, Texas, for the murder of Levi Brown, a white man. He was placed on trial at that term but the jury was unable to agree upon a verdict. At the January 1941 term he was again tried and found guilty of murder without malice, the jury assessing his punishment at...

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