Ross v. State

Conviction is for murder; punishment being assessed at death.

Appellant is a negro. The party killed was a white man. The murder was committed in the perpetration of robbery. Appellant sought to set aside the indictment and to quash the special venire, upon the alleged ground in paeh instance that the negro race had been discriminated against by the jury commission in the selection of the grand jury which returned the indictment and in the selection of the petit jury from which the venire was drawn. Bills A and B.

It may be stated at the outset that the offense for which appellant was tried had…