County No. 2, 5,000 white people, 21,000 Negroes: “I have lived in this county for more than sixty-six years, and we have never had a Negro juror in that time, nor do I ever expect to see one in the jury-box in this county. Our adjoining counties have all had them, a number of years ago.”
County No. 3, 5,000 white people, 27,000 Negroes: “Negroes do not serve on juries in our courts. Such a state of affairs would be considered by the people of this county as farcical. The Lord defend us from having jurors of a race of people who are absolutely without regard for an oath.”
_Arkansas._—County No. 1, 1,800 white people, 12,600 Negroes: “No Negroes serve in this county on regular juries. Sometimes when hard to obtain white jurors, a few Negroes may be taken in cases in J. P. Courts, but not often. Even this habit is smaller than formerly, falling off every year. Colored jurors [are] not looked upon as intelligent, and very few as honest and possessing integrity, and they, as a rule, are also uneducated.”
County No. 2, 14,000 white people, 29,800 Negroes: “No Negroes have served on juries in the court of this county since 1894. Prior to that time it was a common thing for them to be in the majority. I believe the Negroes are fairly well pleased with the verdicts of all white jurors, as the question is nearly always propounded to the juror, when it is a Negro defendant: ‘Would you give the defendant the same consideration as if he was a white man?’”
_Florida._—County No. 1, 17,000 white people, 22,000 Negroes: “It has been many years since a Negro sat upon a jury in this court, and the probability is, it will be many more. Negroes are not regarded as good jurors, and I believe it to be a fact that a Negro would prefer being tried by a white jury than a mixed jury, or a jury composed wholly of Negroes; this applies to both civil and criminal matters.”
County No. 2, 11,000 white people, 12,000 Negroes: “Negroes do not sit on the jury in this county, and have not since the days of ‘Carpet-Bag Rule.’ I do not think a county in this State permits a Negro juryman.”
County No. 3, 6,000 white people, 8,000 Negroes: “Negro jurymen or other officers are a thing of the past in our county and State. The oldest person can hardly recall the time when we had such in our county, with the exception of a very few years just after the war.”