Hernandez v. State

OPINION

DAVID WELLINGTON CHEW, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction for aggravated assault of a peace officer. Alvaro Luna Hernandez was sentenced to 50 years’ confinement in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Crimi nal Justice. He brings two appellate issues: (1) That the trial court erred in denying his pretrial motion to set aside the indictment because Mexican-Americans were systematically excluded and/or grossly underrepresented on grand juries in Brewster County, which Appellant argues that this exclusion and/or underrepresen-tation denied him equal protection…