Rushing v. State

HARWOOD, Presiding Judge.

This appellant has been found guilty under an indictment charging him with carnal knowledge of a girl over twelve and under sixteen years of age.

Prior to entering into trial the defendant filed a motion to quash the indictment on the grounds that some 21 talesmen jurors constituting a part of the general venire were drawn while the clerk was absent from the courtroom, and that as the judge drew the names of said jurors he would hand each card to the sheriff who either approved or disapproved the name, and the judge would either retain the prospective juror, or drop…