Cotton v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

—Appellant was convicted of murder in the District Court of Hunt County, and his punishment fixed at twelve years confinement in the penitentiary. The facts will sufficiently appear from the opinion.

The first error complained of is that the court overruled a motion to quash the special venire because the same was not drawn in accordance with law. It appears that at the beginning of the term of court at which this trial was had, 288 jurors were drawn by the jury commissioners for service as regular veniremen during the eight weeks of the term, and in addition, 150 names were…