Aven v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the District Court of McLennan County, and his punishment fixed at death.

Appellant insists that the first count of the indictment, under which he was convicted, is fatally defective. Same is as follows:

“The grand jury of the County of McLennan and State of Texas, duly selected, organized and empaneled by the Judge of the 54th Judicial District of Texas, holding session of the District Court in and for said county, upon their oaths in said court present that heretofore, on or about the 3rd day of July, A. D. 1921, in said County of McLennan…