In re Wood

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided May 11, 1891,

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1891-05-11

<p>APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK,</p>

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently October 1910

1 federal appellate ·

Relies on Neal v. Delaware

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1891-05-11

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¶1APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK,

¶2and reported ante, page 278.

¶3Concurring opinion of

¶4Mr. Justice Field.

¶5I concur in the judgment in this case, but not in all the-views expressed in the opinion. I adhere -to what I said ■ in my dissent in the case of Neal v. Delaware, 103 U. S. 370, 405, 409, that there is nothing in the late amendments to the Constitution, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth, which requires that colored citizens shall be summoned on juries, *371grand or petit, in order to secure to persons of their race justice and equality in the administration of the law; and, further, that the manner in which, jurors to serve in . the state courts shall be selected, and the qualifications they shall possess, are matters entirely of state regulation.