McNutt v. State

This appellant admittedly killed Charlie Pruitt by shooting him with a gun, and for said killing the grand jury indicted him charging murder in the first degree. The trial resulted in a conviction for murder in the second degree, and his punishment was fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for 18 years. This appeal is from the judgment of conviction duly pronounced and entered in accordance with the verdict of the jury.

It is first insisted by appellant that the court committed reversible error in striking his motion to quash the indictment on the grounds that the court was organized…