Manuscript/Mixed Material NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. Georgia, 1961 (criminal law, Ga.)
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Image 1 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … MAAGP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND CASEFLE BOX Ja D FOLDER
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 2 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … os pe 7 7th TTR RITTER Vo WE SLL i 8 HABEA Wid US ae AT AM 72 Tony Lend A He 0 BALECONM WAL 5 TR April 15 1961 Hird A…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 3 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … 1 That the approximate population of Mitchell County Georgia is between 19000 and 20000 people and of this nunber approximately 8500 to 9000 are negroes 2 That negroes were not included in…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 4 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … the petitioner did not confer with his attorney and did not advise his attorney that he was willing to waive objections to a trial before a petit jury unconstitutionally and discriminatorily constituted…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 5 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … The constitution of juries is a very essential part of the protection such a mode of trial is intended to secure The very idea of a jury is a body of men…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 6 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … sufficient rebuttal of the prima facie case Reece v Georgia supra p 88 of 350 UB8 Testi mony of nondiscrimination expressed in generalities is not sufficient to rebut Discriminatory selection in prior…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 7 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … by the state statutes for grand jury service In a 7year period however only 5 of 584 grand Jurors who served were liegroes Of the persons alled for grand Jury duty only…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 8 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … wee Opportunity for working of a discriminatory systen exists whenever the mechanism for jury selec tion has a component part such as the slips here that differentiates between while and olored such…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 9 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … that since 19560 Negroes were included on each list submitted to the Judges and that for the following 18 years only the single Negro was chosen The Negro defendants murder conviction was…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 10 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … from which the names of Negroes have been systematically excluded Thus the right is one of broad significance closely and vitally connected with the proper admnini stration of justice in both civil…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 11 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … discretion with an eye to avoid unreasonable or undue departures from that mode of trial or from any of the essential elements thereof and with a caution increasing in degree as the…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 12 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … in Johnson v Zerbst 1938 304 U5 458 464 58 S Ct 1019 1025 82 LEd 1461 the Supreme Court de clared uwe It has been pointed out that courts indulge every…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 13 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … with his client before walving objections to a trial jury unconstitutionally and discriminatorily constituted by the systematic exclusion of Negroes therefrom ACY MOOT TIOMmMTmT ANTS ont H A TFCIMITY A YY EM…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 14 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … However Section 50116 limits the scope of its habeas corpus proceedings by providing as follows No person shall be discharged upon the hearing of a writ of habeas corpus in the following…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 15 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … in criminal cases where the offender is subjected to loss of life and if the proper sentence for murder where the Jury failed to recommend mercy was death by electrocution then and…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 16 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … of homicide the Jury shall make any recommendation where not authorized by law to make a recommendation of imprisonment for life the verdict shall be cone strued as if made without any…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 17 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … bed t is the further ruling of this Court that the appellant is now legally detained upon hie indictment for murder but that he is entitled to be tried withis a reasonable…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 18 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … Fat i a VX LS u tr A od Ew Fy oF tom 5 pe 4 5 1 Pd 2 a
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 19 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … 1 i a a IT ERE a os dé he dodo a Lah af na 3 ASPEN Na ou da A ak Ad 0 3 3 FR H id ty a a…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 20 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … ihe brief of evidence filed in this case has been approved by the Court as being true and correct however for the convenience of the Court we punparize the material evidence adduced…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 21 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … Yelham He further testified that the body was BPPrOXi mately one hundred yards from the church oheriff Naples further stated that the left hand front door of the car was open and…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 22 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … wae given by the Flaiatiff Ia Irror to the GBI he Sheriff then detailed his asctions in locating the rifle and the 22 calibre pistol but on direct examination revealed that all…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 23 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … rifie held in a horizontal positicn He further testified nowever that this wound would not have caused the death Pe J ww ho LA FN r Glenn Er of He further sta…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 24 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … wn WP 8 as v Sah we gp ig 9 HE Yay 3 Tt ig aE we 7 an a Ai 5 5 aa abbas a wry 4 T TORR wT ERI…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 25 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … oF avie house After they had gotten out of the back door Fail Vhitus heard two or three shots fired and could hear Leon Davis talking with Mr Glenn the deceased but…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 26 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … zore snots but he could not tell how many on account of the roar of the motor After the shooting your Plaintiff In Error expressed a desire to go home snd drove…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 27 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … he came back to pick them up ir Glenn drove up in his car and as they drove off lr Glean the deceased followed them in his car They then made a…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 28 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … all went around to the front of the house AS they went around te the front of the house the four negroes and the deceased were engaged in 2 rather friendly onversation…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 29 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … in Error vo push the car of the deceased and your Plaintiff in Error asked him Push it where To this leon said Push it until I wave my hand for you…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 30 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … After Leon Davis had struck the deceased the Plaintiffs in Error refused to help him and continued So refuse until Leon Davis fired the gun into the ground threatened the 1aintiflf In…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 31 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … rhe Plaintiff In Zrror Phil Whitus reiterated that het 8 Helped put the body of the deceased inte the A a pi a dd phy Wiis to oo sin HOR ba a…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 32 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … Fortunately the law demands nove of the Stave before it when the defendant pleaded not guilty thie placed the bure den on the State te prove the charge of murder beyond reasonable…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 33 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … the case of Perkins vs the State 124 Ueorsia of the fact it admitted could not to the exclusion of another part which gualified and explained it create a presumption that sccused…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 34 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … have been done if the court had given the prisciple ubreced in this reguest nat part of his statement end testimony whieh if unexplained would criminate although it sould de received as…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 35 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … aT a 1 a he 5 0 a 5 5 pn Ek 8 NN a ee Fi or constructive Raiford v ftate 59 Alal06108 oR the word abet includes knowledge of the…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 36 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … approximately four and a half miles However the uncon tradicted tostimony offered by the State disclosed that during this whole procedure of pushing the car the Flaintiff in frror was constantly under…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 37 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … to link the Flalntiff In SZrror with the crime except the testimony of Jobn Daniels an accomplice It is a well settled rule under the decisions of both this Court and a…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 38 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … the decisions of the Supreme Court and of this court than that the corroborative testimony shall be of ite self sufficient to raise an inference that the defendant is guilty Corroborsting circumstances…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 39 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … whether the circumstances shown by cutside evidence are sufficient to corrchborate the testimony of a cone fessed accomplice the jury may not be allowed to attach undue and unreasonable weight and importance…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
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Image 40 of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. … set aside by this Court Brown v State 19 Ga App 288 89 SE 342 and cit However in a case where the record discloses no evidence whatsogver that in itself and…
- Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Date: 1961
About this Item
Title
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records: Legal Case File, 1915-1967; Whitus v. Georgia, 1961 (criminal law, Ga.)
Names
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Headings
- - Law--United States
- - Civil rights--United States
- - African Americans--Civil rights
- - African Americans--Segregation
- - Segregation--United States
- - United States--Race relations
- - United States--Armed Forces--African Americans
- - African Americans--Education
- - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- - African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc
- - African Americans--Political activity
- - Criminal law--United States
- - Discrimination--Law and legislation--United States
- - Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States
- - Discrimination in education--United States
- - Discrimination in employment--United States
- - Discrimination in housing--United States
- - Discrimination in public accommodations--United States
- - Discrimination in the military--United States
- - Educational law and legislation--United States
- - Election law--United States
- - Housing--Law and legislation--United States
- - Labor laws and legislation--United States
- - Recreation centers--Law and legislation--United States
- - Suffrage--United States
- - Manuscripts
- - United States
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- Manuscripts
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- series: Legal Case File, 1915-1967
- mss65570, box 263
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- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records
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- Manuscript Division
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- African Americans
- Armed Forces
- Civil Rights
- Criminal Law
- Discrimination
- Discrimination in Criminal Justice Administration
- Discrimination in Education
- Discrimination in Employment
- Discrimination in Housing
- Discrimination in Public Accommodations
- Discrimination in the Military
- Education
- Educational Law and Legislation
- Election Law
- Housing
- Labor Laws and Legislation
- Law
- Law and Legislation
- Legal Status, Laws, Etc
- Manuscripts
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- Political Activity
- Race Relations
- Recreation Centers
- Segregation
- Suffrage
- United States