Winfield v. State

That the jury commissioners, in drawing the jury panel from which was selected the jury that tried and convicted the appellant, arbitrarily and intentionally failed to select and refused to select or consider women for jury service on that panel is not disputed.

In sustaining the action of the trial court in overruling appellant’s challenge to the array, my brethren do so upon the proposition that appellant — being a male person and not a member of the class which was discriminated against — could not complain of a denial of equal protection to women in the selection of the jury. In other…