# Lopez v. State

> Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · December 11, 1968 · 437 S.W.2d 268

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9777074

## Case

- **Full name:** Paul LOPEZ, Jr., Also Known as Paul Rodriguez Lopez, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
- **Decided:** December 11, 1968
- **Citations:** 437 S.W.2d 268; 1968 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 926
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** On rehearing by Morrison
- **Judges:** Dice, Morrison, Douglas
- **Cited by:** 24 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- applying rule in criminal context

## Opinion text

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S MOTION FOR REHEARING
MORRISON, Judge.
*270 This Court has again examined this record with care at the insistence of appellant’s earnest counsel.
We remain convinced that under the circumstances here presented an accused may not wait until after the trial, the results of which are distasteful to him, and then complain of an irregularity in the manner of the selection of the jury. We observe however that the action of the District Courts in Bexar County in complying with the provisions of Art. 2120, Vernon’s Ann.Rev.Civ.St., in a diligent manner so as to see that those persons whose names have been drawn from the jury wheel do in fact serve as jurors at another date if such juror is unavailable for service when first notified, is to be commended.
This record reveals that there was not a scintilla of evidence to support appellant’s contention that his race was discriminated against because a number of the panel from which his jury were drawn had been required to serve through delayed jury service. In Gonzales v. State, 161 Tex.Cr.R. 488 , 278 S.W.2d 167 , we said “A showing of the racial composition of a particular jury does not by itself, standing alone, show racial discrimination.”
We also decline to accept his contention that this required delayed service creates a screening process whereby persons belonging to certain economic groups are concentrated. We do not view Judge Curry’s testimony as supporting his contention. When taken as a whole together with Judge Brown’s testimony the opposite conclusion is apparent.
Appellant’s motion for rehearing is overruled.
DOUGLAS, J., not participating.

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