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WILLIS v. CARSON

Civ. A. No. 1145.

324 F.Supp. 1144 (1971)

Lillie WILLIS and Sidney Alexander, Plaintiffs, v. Joe CARSON et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. Mississippi, W. D.

March 19, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Jess Brown, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs.

Robert E. Hauberg, U. S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., for plaintiff-intervenor.

A. F. Summer, Atty. Gen. of Mississippi, Jackson, Miss., for defendants.

Before COLEMAN, Circuit Judge, and COX and RUSSELL, District Judges.

PER CURIAM:

This is a class action which attacks the jury system in Mississippi, and the administration of such jury laws in Sharkey County, Mississippi. It is complained first that § 1762 Mississippi Code 1942 which expressly provides that only male citizens will be eligible to serve on juries in the state courts is unconstitutional; that Chapter 338 Mississippi Laws 1968 providing for the preparation of a jury list, which shall list the names "of qualified...

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