Cubine v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Conviction of assault with intent to murder.

Motion was made to quash the indictment because the grand jury pre senting it was an illegal body, by reason of the fact that several of its members had not paid their poll taxes before the 1st of J anuary, 1903. In regard to the date of the payment of the poll tax, the amendment to the Constitution fixes the time as the 1st of February, and not the 1st of January. This indictment was presented on January 15th. There was still sixteen days of J anuary in which the grand jurors could pay their poll tax, conceding it was…