Martin v. Texas

Citations

• 200 U.S. 316
• 26 S. Ct. 338
• 50 L. Ed. 497
• 1906 U.S. LEXIS 1481

Syllabus

<p>While an accused person of African descent on trial in a state court is entitled under the Constitution of the United States to demand that in organizing the grand jury, and empanelling the petit jury,. there shall be no exclusion of his race on account of race and color, such discrimination cannot be established by merely proving that no one of his race was on either of the juries ; and motions to quash, based on alleged discrimi-nations of that nature, must .bo supported by evidence introduced or by an actual offer, of proof in regard thereto. Smith v. Mississippi, 1(52 U. S. 592,. C00, followed^</p> <p>An accused person cannot of right demand a mixed jury some of which . shall be of his race, nor is a jury of that kind guaranteed by the Four- ' teenth Amendment to any race. .</p>