Although the creation non-unanimous established prior to the civil rights movement, it withstood the times and revolution in the state, exploited to accuse and convict whomever the court desired to, exclusive of the difficulty of being acquitted by jury members who opposed the majority’s verdict. One particular illustration happened in 1970, Frank Johnson, an African American, was incriminated “with the crime of armed robbery. He was tried by a jury of twelve, convicted (the verdict was nine to three), and sentenced to serve thirty-five years at hard labor in the Louisiana State Penitentiary,” (72). While imprisoned, Mr. Johnson attempted to appeal for his case by asserting that his arrest was unlawful in the first place in that “the arrest
