Salen v. State

This is an original proceeding in this court. By stipulation of counsel the application for leave to file a petition for an alternative writ of prohibition is to' be re*491garded as the petition. The state demurs to the application. The petitioner contends that he has been deprived of statutory and constitutional rights because no women were chosen to serve upon the grand jury which returned an indictment against him. He relies particularly upon cases in which convictions were reversed because members of a particular race were excluded from jury service. Norris v. Alabama (1935), 294 U. S. 587,…