Eccles v. Com.

• Decision Date: 06 March 1972
• Citation: 187 S.E.2d 207,212 Va. 679
• Parties: John ECCLES v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.
• Court: Virginia Supreme Court

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187 S.E.2d 207

212 Va. 679

John ECCLES v.COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

March 6, 1972.

John C. Lowe, F. Guthrie Gordon, III, Lowe & Gordon, Charlottesville, on petition for plaintiff in error.

J. T. Camblos, Commonwealth's Atty., City of Charlottesville, Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen., Reno S. Harp, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., on brief in opposition and motion for defendant in error.

Before SNEAD, C.J., and CARRICO, GORDON, HARRISON, COCHRAN and HARMAN, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

John Eccles was tried by a jury in the Corporation Court of the City of Charlottesville and found guilty of selling marijuana.By judgment order entered on the verdict on February 5, 1971, he was fined $500 and sentenced to confinement in the State Penitentiary for three years.We granted a writ of error to the judgment order limited to two assignments of error, one relating to denial of access to the master jury list and the other relating to admissibility of evidence.

Eccles contends that the trial court erred in refusing to give him access to the master jury list for the purpose of determining whether the jury selection procedures required by law and by the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Virginia were complied with in selecting a jury...