Davis v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction of murder with the lowest punishment assessed.

The indictment is attacked because it was found at a special term of the court called by the judge without giving thirty days notice prior to the time the court was held. The validity of such a term and all proceedings had thereat have been so many times and so uniformly sustained by this court, that it is unnecessary to discuss the question again. Mayhew v. State, 69 Texas Crim. Rep., 187; Vasquez v. State, 76 Texas Crim. Rep., 37; Chant v. State, 73 Texas Crim. Rep., 345, and cases cited;…