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DAVIS v. STATE

No. 36350.

374 S.W.2d 242 (1964)

Cleo Ray DAVIS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 15, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. B. Bunkley, Jr., Dallas, for appellant.

Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, 12 years.

In view of our disposition of the case, a recitation of the facts is not deemed necessary. Appellant filed a motion to quash the indictment against him returned by the July term of the grand jury in 1962, on the grounds that persons of African descent (of which he is a member) were systematically excluded from the grand jury which returned the instant...

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