Hill v. State

In his motion for rehearing appellant takes the position that the grand jury which first indicted him was an illegally constituted grand jury, and that the purported indictment returned against him by that body was in fact no indictment at all; that, therefore, the Act of the 47th Legislature set out in our original opinion has no application to his case and that the present indictment having been returned more than a year after the offense was committed the prosecution is barred under the one year statute of limitation in prosecutions for rape.

As supporting his contention appellant cites…