Walker v. State

Conviction is for murder, with punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for 35 years.

Appellant filed an instrument styled a “motion to quash the venire;” which had been drawn from which to select a jury. By whatever name called it was in fact a challenge to the array of jurors. As one ground of the motion it was averred that one of the jury commissioners which selected the jurors had a suit pending in the district court which required the intervention of a jury, which fact is claimed to have disqualified the commissioner, under article 5122, R. C. S., and article 384, C. C. P.…