Moore v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of McLennan. Tried below before Hon. L. W. Goodrich. This appeal is from a conviction for robbery, the punishment being assessed at ten years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. This is a companion case to Will Burries v. State, ante p. 13. Ho statement necessary.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of robbery, and given ten years in the penitentiary, and from the judgment and sentence of the lower court he prosecutes this appeal. Appellant made a motion to dismiss this case and quash the indictment, on the ground that the indict ment was presented in the District Court of the Fifty-fourth Judicial District, and the Nineteenth District Court had no jurisdiction to try him. Both of said courts are District Courts of McLennan County. The act under which they were constituted, provides that the grand jury can only be empaneled by the judge of the…
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