Moore v. State

Having declared independence from the ruling government in part because it denied, and having fought the ensuing revolution in part to obtain, the right to trial by jury, our forebearers enshrined that right in the Sixth and Ninth Declaration of Rights of the Constitution of the Republic of Texas. 3 Vernon’s Texas Constitution (1993) 493-494; they maintained it in the Bill of Rights in all successive constitutions: “the accused, shall have a speedy public trial by an impartial jury.” Id., at 502 (Texas Constitution of 1845, Article I, § 8); at 530 (1861, Article I, § 8); at 558 (1866, Article…