Buchanan v. State

OPINION

BELCHER, Judge.

The offense is murder with malice; the punishment, 75 years.

In his second ground of error the appellant contends that the trial court erred in not granting his motion to quash the indictment in that the Criminal District Court into which the indictment was returned did not have jurisdiction over him for the reason that he was at that time a sixteen-year-old juvenile.

After the Juvenile Court acquired jurisdiction by the filing of the delinquency petition on March 11, 1968, alleging that the appellant was a delinquent child, it held a full hearing on the state’s request to…