State v. Murray

*1425The opinion of the court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

Having been convicted of murder and sentenced to the extreme penalty of the law, the defendant has appealed, relying upon a variety of technical pleas, though chiefly upon the complaint that he is a colored man and that the deceased was a white man, and in the selection and drawing of the grand jury there was an unlawful discrimination against the black or colored race in favor of the white or Caucasian race, whereby he sustained an unjust deprivation of his legal rights.

First in order is defendant’s bill of exceptions to the overruling of…