Smith v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of rape, and his punishment assessed at ninety-nine years confinement in the penitentiary; and prosecutes this appeal.

Appellant reserved a bill of exceptions to the return by the officer of the writ of special venire; he contends that the copy of the venire served on him does not show who was served and who was not. So far as we can make out from the copy, he claims that said copy shows as to fifteen jurors that they were served in person, and then as to the remainder of the list of forty-one alleged to have been served, the dotting under the return of…