Winn v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is theft of sheep. The punishment assessed is confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of two years.

Appellant first complains of the court’s action in overruling his motion to quash the indictment. His contention, as we understand it, is that the jury commissioners for Burnet County at the November Term, 1937, selected a grand jury for the May Term, 1938, when in fact the law for that County provided for the 17th Monday after the first Monday in February, which date fell in the early part of June. Consequently there was no May Term, but a June Term. See R.…