Ervin v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is possessing intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for five years.

Before announcing ready for trial appellant filed his motion to quash the jury panel, which was overruled. It appears that the members of the panel had been selected by jury commissioners at a regular term of the court convening in July, 1930. The trial was had at the next succeeding term, on September 19, 1930, before a jury drawn from this panel. The motion to quash directed the trial court’s attention to the fact that the city of Abilene in…