McCline v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

On January 14, 1911, the grand jury of Falls County, Texas, indicted the appellant for the murder of Bosa Tubbs, alleged to have been committed on September 6, 1910. The term of court at which the indictment was returned convened in January 9, 1911. The law requires, and we assume that it was done at this time, that the grand jury be duly impaneled on the first day of the term of court.' From the record we gather that perhaps on the same day of the killing, if not, only a day or two later, 'the appellant was arrested by the sheriff of Falls County, and placed in the jail of…