State v. Thomas

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

The defendant was indicted by the grand jury of the ' parish of Tensas on the sixth day of July, 1897, for the alleged murdor of Ada Jackson in the parish on the fourth day of July, 1897.

*149On July 7, 1897, he presented to the court a motion to quash the venire and a motion to quash the indictment.

The following were the grounds:

That the proces verbal did not set forth that all the members of the jury commission had been notified of the time and place for the drawing of the venire, nor that the jurors selected were to serve at any particular term…