Florida had a statute limiting women on juries which was very similar to the language in the Louisiana law. In Hoyt v. Florida, 368 U.S. 57 (1961), the United States Supreme Court sustained the conviction of a woman convicted of second-degree murder, who was tried by an all-male jury. The Court held: (1) that the statute automatically exempting women from jury duty was based upon a reasonable classification and hence did not violate defendant's rights under the fourteenth amendment, and (2) that statistics, showing that few women volunteers were placed on jury lists, were insufficient to show that the statute was being applied in a discriminatory manner.
