WHITUS

v.

BALKCOM, WARDEN

Citator

Cited By

• Whitus v. Georgia, 385 U.S. 545 (U.S. 1967)
  …e District Court dismissed the writ and the Court of Appeals affirmed. 299 F. 2d 844. On writ of certiorari, we vacated that judgment and remanded the case to the District Court for a hearing on the claim of discrimination. [*548] Whitus v. Balkcom, 370 U. S. 728 (1962). On remand, the District Court again dismissed the petition on the ground that the claim had been waived since it was not raised in the Georgia courts. The Court of Appeals reversed, holding that Negroes had been systematically excluded from…
• Whitus v. Balkcom, 333 F.2d 496 (5th Cir. 1964)
  …the ground, among others, that a state remedy through habeas corpus was still available. We affirmed. Whitus v. Balkcom, 5 Cir. 1962, 299 F. 2d 844. The Supreme Court, per curiam, vacated the judgment and remanded the case. Whitus v. Balkcom, 1962, 370 U.S. 728, 82 S.Ct. 1575, 8 L.Ed.2d 803. Again the district court dismissed the petition.10 The petitioners are before us on their appeal from that order of dismissal. The factual question of the existence of the custom of systematic exclusion of Negroes fro…
• Witcher v. Peyton, 405 F.2d 725 (4th Cir. 1969)
  …jury procedures in force in courts of the United States, it should not be condemned in a state court jury procedure where, as here, the same reasonable explanation of its value is at hand. This case is not like the first case of Whitus v. Balkcom, 370 U.S. 728, 82 S.Ct. 1575, 8 L.Ed.2d 803, which, on remand, found 45% of the population of Mitchell County was Negro, 42% of the males over 21 were Negro, and no Negroes had ever served on the grand or petit juries. This case is not the second Whitus v. Georgi…