Jaurez v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Appellant is under conviction for selling intoxicating liquor, punishment being one year in the penitentiary.

When the case was called for trial appellant .filed a motion to set aside the indictment, claiming that the prosecution should be abated because in the selection of the grand jury which returned the bill he had been purposely discriminated against because of his religious convictions, and had thereby been deprived of equal protection of the law guaranteed under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The State excepted to this plea upon the ground,…