Tuley v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Rape is the offense; the punishment, fifty years in the penitentiary.

The pivotal question relates to the overruling of the motion to quash the special venire.

Collin County, where the case was tried, is not under the jury wheel system; prospective jurors are drawn by jury commissioners. The drawing of special venires is governed by Arts 592, 593, 594, and 595, C. C. P. The jury commissioners at the preceding term of court drew the names of 288 persons to serve *72as petit jurors at this term of court — which were 48 names each week for six weeks. In addition thereto, the jury…