Thompson v. State

DAVIDSOD, Presiding Judge.

This is a death penalty conviction for rape. The question of race discrimination was suggested as a ground for quashing the indictment. The facts show that appellant is a negro, and that there were no negroes selected to serve upon the grand jury returning this indictment. Judge Green testified that he was district judge in Bexar County from 1894 to 1900; that there are some six or seven thousand jurors in Bexar county of whom seven or eight hundred are negroes, of which but few are qualified; that he has occupied other official positions in the county, and is now…