Williams v. State

Citations

• 44 Tex. 34

Syllabus

<p>1. Trial—Challenge.—A challenge to the array cannot be made by a negro on the ground that he is placed upon trial before a jury composed exclusively of white men, and cannot thus have a trial before a jury of his peers ; nor can such challenge be based on the ground that the white jury was not selected “ without regard to race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”</p> <p>2. Theft—Evidence—A conviction will not be permitted to stand when based exclusively on testimony of a witness who is incapable of exercising a faculty necessary to a knowledge of the matter about which he testifies.</p>