Ryan v. State

Christian, Judge.

The offense is theft; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

No statement of facts is brought forward. Appellant is a negro. The two bills of exception found in the record relate to the appellant’s effort to have the indictment set aside on the alleged ground that the negro race had been discriminated against in the selection of the grand jury which returned the indictment. The court heard the testimony of three witnesses, two of whom stated that there were more negroes in the county than white people and that for approximately twenty-five years no…