Lee v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for life.

A motion to quash the venire was overruled. Complaint is made of this in a bill of exceptions which reveals that for regular jury service there were selected and summoned 144 veniremen, and that for special venire service 150 persons were summoned. Before drawing the venire in the present case, the names in both of these lists were placed together in a box and therefrom were drawn the names of forty, that being the number demanded in the special venire. Of the forty names placed upon…