Hernandez v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Murder is the offense, with punishment assessed at life imprisonment in the penitentiary.

Appellant is a Mexican, or Latin American. He claims that he was discriminated against upon the trial of this case because members of the Mexican nationality were deliberately, systematically, and wilfully excluded from the grand jury that found and returned the indictment in this case and from the petit jury panel from which was selected the petit jury that tried the case. He sought, for said reasons, to quash the indictment and petit jury panel, claiming he had thereby been deprived of…