Court Opinion

ID: 9767818
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 05:28:31.474021+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:33.267879
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ON appellant’s motion for rehearing.
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Appellant insists that Cassel v. Texas, supra, is authority for holding that members of the Negro race, of which appellant is one, were discriminated against, because of their race, in the selection of the petit jury that returned the verdict in this case.
As we understand the holding in Cassell’s case, it is that under the facts there presented, race discrimination was shown in the organization of the grand jury which returned the indictment in that case. We do not understand that the question of race discrimination in the organization of the petit jury was there presented or decided.
Expressions are found in Cassell’s case asserting that race discrimination in the organization of a petit jury constitutes a violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution. So far as we are aware, no one challenges the correctness of that statement. Certainly this court does not.
Whether discrimination either in the organization of a grand or petit jury exists is a question of fact.
What we hold is that under the facts here presented, no race discrimination in the organization of the petit jury has been *237shown. The facts are stated in the original opinion and will not be here again stated or elaborated upon.
Appellant’s motion for rehearing is overruled.
Opinion approved by the court.