Tores v. State

HABPEB, Judge.

At the time for a regular term of the District Court of McMullen County, the Hon. F. G. Chambliss, judge of said court, being ill and unable to attend court, the members of the bar in attendance on said court elected Hon. W. W. Walling special judge of said court, who opened court, empaneled a grand jury in accordance with law, and the said grand jury at a later day of said term returned an indictment against appellant. The venue of this cause was then changed to Atascosa County, when and where appellant was tried.

Appellant filed a plea in abatement alleging that he was a…