Ratliff v. State

Appellant was convicted of the murder of his wife and his punishment fixed at life imprisonment.

It is first insisted that the court erred in refusing to set aside the service of a copy of the venire and of the indictment upon defendant and grant a continuance, first, upon the ground that a copy of the indictment and the list of names of the jurors were not served forthwith on the defendant by the sheriff. The venire appears to have been drawn on March'8th — the trial was had on March 19th — and on March 13th a copy of the indictment and venire were duly served. The ruling of this court in…