Robinson v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge. —

Appellant was convicted in the district court of Young County of murder, and his punishment fixed at twenty-five years in the penitentiary.

The indictment was attacked by motion to quash based on the ground that the court in which it was returned was created as an emergency court and for the specific term of two years, that there was nothing in the bill creating the court which gave it power to impanel a grand jury, and hence the exercise of such power was ultra vires and an indictment returned by a grand jury impaneled by said court was a nullity. We find nothing in the act…