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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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The NAACP argued its 28th case, Watts v. Indiana, before the US Supreme Court in Washington, appealing a murder conviction on grounds of systematic exclusion of Black people from grand juries in Marion County, Indiana, and a coerced confession. Decision pending.
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WASHINGTON - Decision is waited in the case of WATTS v. INDIANA, argued this week before the United States Supreme Court by attorneys for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
In the Watts case, the twenty-eighth NAACP legal battle to reach the highest court in the country, the NAACP appealed the affirmation by the Supreme Court of Indiana of a conviction of Robert A. Watts by lower Indiana courts for the alleged murder of Mary Lois Burney, a white woman. Charging that Watts' constitutional rights were violated at his trial, the N.A.A.C.P. contended that Negroes had been systematically excluded from grand jury service in Marion County, Ind., where Watts was indicted, for a period of more than twenty-five years, and that the conviction of Watts was based on an involuntary confession obtained through coercion and intimidation.
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This Week
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conviction of robert a. watts for the alleged murder of mary lois burney affirmed by supreme court of indiana; decision awaited from united states supreme court
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People appealed the affirmation by the Supreme Court of Indiana of a conviction of Robert A. Watts by lower Indiana courts for the alleged murder of Mary Lois Burney. The NAACP charged that Watts' constitutional rights were violated at his trial, contending that Negroes had been systematically excluded from grand jury service in Marion County, Ind., for more than twenty-five years, and that the conviction was based on an involuntary confession obtained through coercion and intimidation.