Edgar v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of violating the local option law.

1. He reserved a bill of exceptions to the court’s refusal to quash the indictment. The ground stated was that the instrument was not returned by a legal grand jury in that one of the jurors, and who signed his name as foreman, was a deputy sheriff of the county and held a commission as such at the time he served as foreman of the grand jury. The evidence bearing upon this, perpetuated in the bill shows that the sheriff testified that Green, the foreman of the grand jury, was appointed by him as deputy two…