Show HE WAS EXCUSED i How Judge Pat jannai Decided on tlC Fourteenth Amendment I The recent decision of Justice Mygatt i out at Pizen Switch declaring the new antitreating law to be unconstitutional I says the Virginia Entrrpriir calls to mind a somewhat similar incident which transpired trans-pired in the early days of the Comstock I I was in 1807 when Pembroke Murray was justice of the peace Pat Lannan constable and Mark Feeny deputy constable con-stable A case came up in which the rights of property was the issue involved and under the rule of those days the trial had to be conducted before the constable I I therefore Pat Lannan acted in the capacity I capa-city of the justice Feeny summoned a jury among whom was a colored man I One of the counsel objected to this man on account of his color and the opposite counsel strenuously argued that there being be-ing no other objection he was a fully qualified under the provisions of the I Fourteenth Amendment to serve on the jury a any other citizen A strong dis1 i cussion followed and the Fourteenth i Amendment seemed to have the best of 1 i it when his honor Pat Lannan brought the matter ta a summary conclusion by I arbitrarily excusingthe juror j refusing to have him on the jury C But your Honor exclaim d the attorney at-torney I protest against this violation of the Constitution of the United States I I The Fourteenth Amendment reads Sit down sir roared Pat Lannan I declare the Fourteenth Amendment unconstitutional Mr Constable escort I i the colored man out of the jurybox Proceed Pro-ceed with the case 1 This settled the dispute and notwithstanding notwith-standing the filed protest of the attorney the jury was completed without the colored col-ored man and the s went on |