ESPINOZA v. STATE

No. 57020.

604 S.W.2d 908 (1980)

Alfredo ESPINOZA, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Panel No. 3.

Rehearing Denied September 24, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cameron M. Cunningham and Brady Coleman, Austin, for appellant.

Steve W. Simmons, Dist. Atty., and Douglas Gelo, Asst. Dist. Atty., El Paso, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before DALLY, W. C. DAVIS and CLINTON, JJ.


OPINION

DALLY, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for the offense of arson. The punishment is imprisonment for two years.

The appellant filed a timely motion to quash the indictment alleging that Spanish-surnamed persons were systematically excluded from El Paso County grand juries for the period of 1965-1976. The appellant was indicted September 11, 1975. The trial court after hearing the motion overruled it and refused to quash the indictment...

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