Barrow v. State

Undercofler, Presiding Justice.

We have granted Barrow’s application for interlocutory appeal to consider important questions concerning the compositions of the grand jury that indicted him and the traverse jury that will try him for murder. Barrow faces the death penalty. The trial court sustained the legality of both juries; we reverse.

1. Barrow was indicted on April 21, 1975. Although he was represented by counsel from February 11,1975, no motion was made regarding the composition of the grand jury. Barrow was tried, convicted, and given the death sentence for murder, but his conviction was…