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...defense next moved that the present indictment be quashed because of similar "systematic exclusion" of Negroes from the Morgan County venire. When jury board commissioners failed to say whether or not their jury rolls contained Negro names, Counsel Leibowitz threatened to have all 2,000 talesmen subpoenaed "if it takes till doomsday," to see what color they were...
Next day the defense won and lost a point. Judge Horton ruled that prima facie evidence had been established that the Morgan County jury roll was allwhite. Counsel Leibowitz then moved that Negro talesmen be considered for the present jury, a proposal which brought to horrified Southerners visions of carpetbagging days. The courtroom was tense when Judge Horton softly said: "Motion denied...
Summoned among other talesmen for a Federal jury to try a mail fraud case in Manhattan, John Davison Rockefeller III, 24, was asked if he did not want to be excused; that it could be arranged. Said he: "I believe that any one summoned for jury duty should serve if he can." When defense attorneys asked the talesman: "Is any person connected with any of your families a member of the New York Stock Exchange?" he raised his hand and revealed what few persons know: "My grandfather is a member." Because the grandfather does not trade actively, the grandson...
...Leonardo da Vinci lie quietly in his undiscovered grave in Amboise by the sunny river Loire; to sell pictures for whatever they may bring regardless of recondite aspersions. The New York World editorialized: "We believe it would be a good idea if the court found out whether the talesmen know a Corot from a Wallace Nutting, and whether the Louvre is an art museum, a hotel or a disease. . . . There is grave danger that the verdict will be i cent to the plaintiff, 'with costs on the said Devinchey...
...Judge. Short shrift to irrelevancies and oily oratory featured Justice Jennings Bailey's conduct of the trial. Persons who believed Sinclair was guilty, predicted short shrift for Sinclair, because brisk, efficient Justice Bailey had examined the talesmen himself, and locked up the jury...