Funk v. State

MORROW, Judge.

—Appellant is under conviction for murder charged to have been committed in May, 1917, and at his trial the same year he interposed a plea of jurisdiction of the District Court of the State of Texas on the ground that he, being a soldier in the United States army at the time of the alleged offense and at the time of the trial, was not amenable to the State courts. He also filed a motion to transfer the cause to the United States District Court.

Appellant relies upon the provisions of chapter 418, Acts of the. Sixty-fourth Congress, First Special Session, U. S. Statutes at Large,…