Pape v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the' Criminal District Court of Dallas. Tried below before the Hon. W. W. Helms. Appeal from a conviction of manslaughter; penalty, five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDS OH, Presiding Judge.
Appellant filed a motion to quash the special venire, alleging that the law under which it was drawn was unconstitutional. The law referred to is the Act of the Thirtieth' Legislature, which provides that those counties containing a city or cities having twenty thousand inhabitants or more should draw grand and petit jurors differently from the manner of drawing them in other counties not similarly situated, to be determined by the census of 1900. This contention was held to be not well taken in the opinion of the majority of the court in the Bob Smith case decided…
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