Turner v. State

John A. Fogleman, Justice.

Appellant was found guilty of assault with intent to kill C. E. Faris, a marshal of Strong. The incidents on which the charge was based occurred on July 22, 1973. The trial was on June 12, 1974. On the eve of trial, appellant, a negro, filed a motion to quash the jury panel, the names on the master jury list, and the “names now contained in the jury box,” and to appoint a new jury commission. The first ground for the motion was that there had either been deliberate and systematic exclusion of negroes, systematic limitation of the number of negroes appointed as jury…