Wyatt v. State

HARWOOD, Judge.

This appellant stands convicted of the offense of rape, the alleged offended girl being appellant’s fourteen year old daughter Mary Leona Wyatt.

In the court below appellant filed a plea in abatement to the indictment, and a motion to quash same, each asserting substantially the same ground.

The plea in abatement challenges the validity of the indictment because “one of the persons who prepared the jury roll and cards required by Title 30, Section 20 of the 1940 Code of Alabama was not qualified to act in that respect and was not a qualified elector of Hale County, • Alabama at…