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IN RE JENISON CONTEMPT PROCEEDINGS

No. 38,940.

265 Minn. 96 (1963)

120 N.W. (2d) 515

IN RE MRS. OWEN JENISON CONTEMPT PROCEEDINGS.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

March 8, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Connolly, Louis W. Claeson, Jr., and Otis H. Godfrey, Sr., for relator.

Walter F. Mondale, Attorney General, and Charles E. Houston, Solicitor General, for respondents.

OTIS, JUSTICE.

This matter is before the court on a writ of certiorari to review a conviction for contempt arising out of the refusal of relator, Laverna H. Jenison, to act as a petit juror for the assigned reason that such service is in conflict with her religious principles.

It appears that Mrs. Jenison was called for jury duty at the general term of the Renville County District Court on November 13, 1962, and was...

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