Whatley v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for five years.

A former appeal is reported in 117 Texas Crim. Rep., 447, 36 S. W. (2d) at page 751.

The special venire from which the jury was selected was drawn from jurors selected under the provisions of chapter 151, Special Laws of the Forty-Second Legislature (1931), at its Regular Session. (Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St., art. 2116a, secs. 1-5). Appellant made a motion to quash the venire on the ground that the act in question was a local law in violation of the provisions of article 3, section 56 of the…