VIRGINIA'S MIXED JURY CASE
Item
- Title
- VIRGINIA'S MIXED JURY CASE
- Source
- The sun (NY)
- Date
- 1880-06-10
- page
- 2
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030272/1880-06-10/ed-1/?sp=2&q=murder&r=0.537,0.106,0.24,0.115,0
- Crime
- Murder
- Subject
- racial; ongoing
- Race of alleged offender
- Black alleged offender
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Stage of the Legal System
- trial
- Location
- Out-of-State; Danville, VA
- Length of story
- 421
- Description
- JlntINIS xnxKit jvnr CUE An Impnsfntit llrrUltin nTihtt ftntiretiie Conrt 11lh Lnlled Millet Ittciillod DAKVltiTjK Va Juno BTho celebrated cnso of thu Ilcynohls negroes which vvns remanded from the United States Dis trict Court Hives Judge to tho Circuit Court of Patrick County cnmo up for trlnl them last weok nnd on motion ot their counsol thn vnnuo vrns ehnnecd to tho Circuit Cull nt Dnnvlllii Judua Orocn A special vnitlru hits lioun ordered for their trial here on the 21st Inst l Tho Iteynolilses wcrti Indicted In thn Rtnto court for murder A motion t so modify tho vitilrn thnt onethird or some portion of tho Jury should bo nniiiomM fit colored citizens livlng Iwun denied Juilizo Hives ol tha utilidil Rlntes llolrlll Court on petitions of do frndniiij inoit tlm prisoners out of thu cu lo11 of tha HtiitiKifllelnlB nnd held them for trlnl by thalidiinl court on thu ground that tuny had bion denied br tho fitnto tribunal such I trlnl bv competent jurors without distinction of men fir color ns tint Inws of tlm htutogunr iintoed tn them Julll UUiB bnxid bin 11101 tll nellon on cectlon fill of th llevlsed btnttltcs of Ihl United Htntis providing fo tho coil n I rlflitH of citizens of tho United Ktnlps Tho Stnlo of Mrglnln petitioned HID Supremo Court ptthoUnltidhtaleM for 1 mandnitius compul jlnit Judiri lllvis to re toro the prisonors to tho Slum Court and In griintlnu thin petition tho hunriina Court snld thnt us tha Constitution nnd Inws of Ir lnln do not exclude colnrid clt Izuns from Kcrvlcn ns jurors Ilia petition lor re iiiuvnl did nut tirisiuil n eiiHi fortemovnl under Fiitlon C 1 The ilenlnlof Ihu motion for n mixed iiiry thi Supriuiio Court decided wis not I denial nf tho rluht secured to tho de fendants by niiy Inw I providing for thn fd mil rights of elllrnns ot thn United Silt or by nny statute or by tho Fourteenth Amuiid mnnt A mixed jury In I particular CIIBO U not ijhfiuntlal to tho cgual prottetlon ot tbo laus I la 1 right to which nny colored nmn Is nnllilnd that in tht pnli e jjiin of jtinirH to pnss upon hln Ufa liberty or proporty thero nlmll Uutio lxlu lon of his race nnd no discrimination iignluHtthein bceuiMiof color but that IgnillfTnrnnt thing from that which was el ilmcd ns I right nnd dn I nled InthuStnta courts viz A rluht to havo I jury composed In part ot colored man
