Legal Opinion

Bustillos v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided June 16, 1948No. 24102Published

1Opinion

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant again contests the invalidity of the grand jury which found the indictment on the ground that ten of these grand jurors had served on the first panel that evidently found an indictment against him at the same term of the court, and he says, therefore, that having already previously heard the testimony against him, they were prejudiced against him and were not fair jurors. Evidently the trial court, fearing some irregularity or error in the proceedings relative to the summoning and. impaneling of the first grand jury, caused them to be again…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Lugo v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1938

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