Foreman v. State

—Appellant was indicted, tried by a jury, and convicted of the crime of automobile banditry. He has appealed to this court and he assigns as error the action of the trial court in: (1) Sustaining the demurrer of the state to his plea in abatement; (2) sustaining the demurrer of the state to his plea in bar; (3) overruling his motion to quash the indictment; (4) overruling his motion for a new trial.

The plea in abatement was upon the theory that the jury commissioners who drew the grand jury that indicted the appellant were not legally qualified because they had not taken an oath to support…