reasons to wit: Incompetency, strong prejudices, superstitiousness, and general unfitness in regard to equity. . . . It happens frequently they are drawn and serve on juries in what we term here United States courts. . . ."
County No. 4, 1,500 white people, 8,800 Negroes: "Negroes do not serve on the juries in this county. . . . None of the Negroes in this county have ever been placed in such [jury] boxes."
County No. 5, 4,000 white people, 9,000 Negroes: "We do not have Negroes as jurors; we tried them and found them incompetent and otherwise disqualified."
County No. 6, 7,000 white people, 11,000 Negroes: "No Negroes serve on the jury in this county."
County No. 7, 4,800 white people, 5,000 Negroes: "Not a blooming one [Negro juror], and not likely to be."
County No. 8, 2,000 white people, 5,800 Negroes: "There are no Negro jurors in this county."
County No. 9, 6,000 white people, 7,000 Negroes: "I have lived here all my life and do not know that there has been any Negro who has served on the jury in this county. I am quite sure there has been none for the past 20 or 30 years."
County No. 10, 2,500 white people, 4,000 Negroes: ". . . There has never been a Negro juror to serve in this country nor any other county surrounding this to my knowledge. We revise our jury-boxes biennially, and never have yet put a Negro's name on the list of jurors. And I think this is the practice all over the State. I am satisfied if one should be put on any jury that the white men on would flatly refuse to serve at all. . . ."
County No. 11, 5,000 white people, 6,000 Negroes:
