Ex parte Cravens

KRUEGER, Judge.

Appellant was indicted by the grand jury of Dallas County for the offense of robbery by assault, a noncapital offense. She was subsequently arrested by the sheriff of said county and placed in jail. She immediately applied to the Honorable Henry King, Judge of Criminal District Court No. 2, of Dallas County, for a writ of habeas corpus.

In her first application, she alleged that she is a white woman, that there was no woman on the grand jury which indicted her, although there were many women in Dallas County who were qualified for grand jury service; that the grand jury was…