Ward v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

This is a conviction for murder with malice, with punishment assessed at fifteen years in the penitentiary.

The sole question presented for review is the failure of the trial court to sustain appellant’s motion to quash the venire.

The trial court ordered a venire of two hundred fifty names drawn from the jury wheel. The clerk of the court, in carrying out that order, drew the names of two hundred fifty persons but of that number there was a duplication of one name — that is, the name of one person appeared twice upon the venire.

Appellant insists, therefore, that the names of…