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- Title: Commonwealth v. Welosky
- Author : Supreme Court of Minnesota
- Release Date : January 10, 1931
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 77 KB
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RUGG, C. J. As the jurors were about to be impaneled for the trial of this complaint, the defendant filed a challenge to the array. Issue of law was joined thereon. Commonwealth v. Walsh, 124 Mass. 32, 35; Provident Institution for Savings v. Burnham, 128 Mass. 458, 461. The ground on which that challenge rests is that there were no women on the lists from which the jurors were drawn. The contention in support of the challenge raises two inquiries: (1) Whether under the laws of the commonwealth the names of women ought to have been placed upon the jury lists; and (2) whether by such exclusion the constitutional rights of the defendant under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States have been infringed.