Humes v. Robbins’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
November 1980
most recently cited
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Brown v. State of Mississippi · Fay v. People of State of New York Bove · Robbins v. Green · Humes v. Robbins
Most-quoted passages
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“Humes told his counsel that he mistrusted the sheriff’s disinterestedness in selecting talesmen and his counsel took the matter up with the court. The court thereupon called a conference in chambers with the prosecuting attorney, Humes’ attorney, and the sheriff, at which the court ordered the sheriff not to tell the persons he ordered into court for service as tales-men anything about the case upon which they might be selected to sit, or to mention Humes’ name in connection with it. It was also then agreed that Humes’ counsel might interrogate each talesman as he was called for examination prior to selection as a juror. . . . Neither Humes nor his counsel made any further objections to the selection of talesmen by the sheriff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Henson v. Wyrick
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