Rochelle v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the Criminal District Court of Bowie County for unlawfully catching fish; punishment fixed at a fine and imprisonment in the county jail.

The controlling legal question is whether that part of the Act of the Legislature creating the court, which declares that “in the trial of misdemeanor cases there shall be six jurors instead of twelve” is valid. As a preliminary step in the solution of this question, we must determine the character of the court in which appellant was tried. The caption of the law creating the court describes it as “An Act to…