McKee v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

Annulment of the judgment is sought upon the proposition that the selection of the members of the grand jury which found the indictment against the appellant was illegal in that the grand jury was selected by five jury commissioners. In the Act of the Legislature of 1876, it was declared that the district judge shall, at each term, appoint three persons to perform the duties of jury commissioners. It was also declared that the jury commissioners shall select sixteen men from whom the members of the grand jury shall be selected. See R. S., 1879,…