Pena v. State

Conviction for possessing intoxicating liquor for purposes of sale; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

Appellant moved to quash the indictment, and complains of the refusal of the court so to do, in his bill of exceptions No. 1, which contains some thirty odd pages. Condensing as best we can its contents, it sets up that the regular judge of Bee county, Judge T. M. Cox, convened his November, 1926 term, — instructed his grand jury, — and then because engaged in a lengthy unfinished trial in another county of his district he recessed court until November 15th. On November 15th, he not…