County No. 3, 5,000 white people, 12,000 Negroes: “Negroes do not serve as jurors in this county, for several 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 county 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: “... There is no record of Negroes ever serving as jurors in this county.”
Kentucky.—No replies have come from the seven counties of Kentucky in which Negroes constitute a large percentage of the population. But the following is quoted from a letter from the Assistant Attorney General of the State: “Negro jurors are sometimes selected in various parts of the State, and I presume all over the State. Twenty years ago the custom was more prevalent than at present of putting Negroes on the juries. They were the best class of Negroes, and I am reliably informed that in various parts of the State the Negroes themselves requested to be left off the juries, which may account for the fact that the practice seems to have fallen into disuse.”