Spence v. North Carolina Ellison v. Texas Jackson v. Beto, 759

• Court: U.S. Supreme Court
• Writing for the Court: PER CURIAM; BLACK; WHITE
• Citation: Spence v. North Carolina Ellison v. Texas Jackson v. Beto, 392 U.S. 649, 88 S.Ct. 2290, 20 L.Ed.2d 1350 (1967)
• Decision Date: 01 October 1967
• Docket Number: No. 759,No. 1311,No. 1823,M,759,1311,1823
• Parties: Joseph Eugene SPENCE et al. v. NORTH CAROLINA. isc. Jessie ELLISON v. TEXAS. isc. Robert Eddie Louis JACKSON v. George J. BETO, Corrections Director. isc

392 U.S. 649

88 S.Ct. 2290

20 L.Ed.2d 1350

Joseph Eugene SPENCE et al.

v. NORTH CAROLINA.

No. 759, Misc.

Jessie ELLISON

v. TEXAS.

No. 1311, Misc.

Robert Eddie Louis JACKSON

v. George J. BETO, Corrections Director.

No. 1823, Misc.

Supreme Court of the United States

October Term, 1967.

June 17, 1968

Sam Houston Clinton, Jr., for petitioner Jessie Ellison.

T. W. Bruton, Atty. Gen. of North Carolina, and Harry W. McGalliard, Deputy Atty. Gen., for respondent State of North Carolina.

Crawford C. Martin, Atty. Gen. of Texas, Nola White, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Hawthorne Phillips and Lonny F. Zwiener, Asst. Attys. Gen., and A. J. Carubbi, Jr., for respondent State of Texas.

Crawford C. Martin, Atty. Gen. of Texas, Nola White, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert C. Flowers, Douglas H. Chilton, and Lonny F. Zwiener, Asst. Attys. Gen., for respondent George J. Beto.

On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

For opinion on remand see 164 S.E.2d 593.

PER CURIAM.

The motions for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and the petitions for writs of certiorari are granted. The judgments of the courts below are vacated and the cases remanded for reconsideration in the light of Witherspoon v. State of Illinois, 391 U.S. 510, 88 S.Ct. 1770, 20 L.Ed.2d 776.

Mr. Justice BLACK and Mr. Justice HARLAN dissent for reasons stated in Mr. Justice Black's dissenting opinion in Witherspoon v. State of Illinois, 391 U.S. 510, 532, 88 S.Ct. 1770, 1782, 20 L.Ed.2d 776.

Mr. Justice WHITE dissents for the reasons stated in his dissenting opinion in Witherspoon v. State of Illinois, 391 U.S. 510, 540, 88 S.Ct. 1770, 1786, 20 L.Ed.2d 776.