State v. Kifer

FOURNET, Justice.

The defendant, Melvin Everett Kifer, has appealed from his conviction without capital punishment and sentence to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary on a charge by indictment of having committed the crime of rape.

The defendant filed two motions to quash the indictment: One is based on the ground that the grand jury, which indicted him, was not drawn as directed by law, in that the names of the grand jurors were drawn from an open box and not from an envelope containing the names of the jury venire as the law directs; and the other is based on the ground that the…