Collins v. State

ANDERSON, Chief Justice.

The trial court did not err in overruling the defendant’s motion to quash the indictment. The defendant’s own witnesses disclosed an effort on the part of the jury commission to conform to the requirements laid down by the United States Supreme Court in the case of Norris v. Alabama, 294 U.S. 587, 55 S.Ct. 579, 79 L.Ed. 1074. The qualification of the jurors is largely discretionary with the jury commission, except there must be no exclusion on account of race, and we think the witnesses introduced by the defendant disclosed that a bona fide effort was made in the…