Rice v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

The grand jury of Bell county indicted appellant and defendant below, Arvil Rice, in which he was accused of murdering one Walter Dorfman by shooting him with a pistol, from the effects of which he immediately died. The indictment was returned on August 4, 1938, and appellant’s trial was had on November 17 of the same year. Upon the calling of the case for trial counsel moved that the regular venire summoned for services at that term of the court be discharged, on the ground that in drawing it the court had drawn from the wheel and put on the jury…