Supreme Court of the United States

In Re Wood, Petitioner

May 11, 1891140 U.S. 278

Summary

The Supreme Court affirmed the Circuit Court's denial of Joseph Wood's petition for a writ of habeas corpus, holding that the alleged racial exclusion from jury lists should have been raised in the state trial court and that federal courts may not intervene via habeas corpus when the state statute is not repugnant to the Constitution.