Pate v. State

Appellant filed a motion to quash the special venire, alleging that the law under which it was drawn was unconstitutional. The law referred to is the Act of the Thirtieth Legislature, which provides that those counties containing a city or cities having twenty thousand inhabitants or more should draw grand and petit jurors differently from the manner of drawing them in other counties not similarly situated, to be determined by the census of 1900. This contention was held to be not well taken in the opinion of the majority of the court in the Bob Smith case decided at our recent Austin term…