Glass v. State

Nichols, Presiding Judge.

The defendant was tried and convicted under an accusation charging her with pointing a gun at another. Before pleading, the defendant filed a challenge to the array of the traverse jury based upon the ground that the systematic, arbitrary and deliberate exclusion of members of the Negro race from serving as jurors in such court was a violation of the defendant’s rights “as provided for under the equal protection clause and due process clause” of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. After hearing evidence the trial court overruled the challenge…