Howell v. State

— Plaintiff in error was convicted of tbe crime of incest and sentenced to a term in the penitentiary. To the judgment of conviction this writ of error was sued out.

Plaintiff in error filed a plea in abatement to the indictment, setting up that two members of the Grand Jury which found the indictment were delated to the prosecutrix in the ease and that one of them was a prosecutor of the defendant and had participated in the investigation of the charge against the defendant and the proceedings incident thereto and that both of said parties participated in the findings of the indictment in…