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KING v. COOK

No. GC 6828-K.

298 F.Supp. 584 (1969)

Willie Edward KING, Petitioner, v. Thomas D. COOK, Superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, Mississippi, Respondent.

United States District Court N. D. Mississippi, Greenville Division.

April 14, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence Aschenbrenner, Jackson, Miss., for petitioner.

Guy N. Rogers, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for respondent.

OPINION OF THE COURT

KEADY, Chief Judge.

On February 27, 1969, this court held an evidentiary hearing on the sole remaining contention1 raised in Willie Edward King's petition for writ of habeas corpus filed July 12, 1968—whether or not members of the Negro race were systematically excluded from the jury list compiled by the Board of Supervisors of Quitman County, Mississippi, in April, 1966, from which the grand and petit...

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