People v. Bush

The plaintiff in error, John Bush, seeks to reverse the judgment of the circuit court of Saline county by which he was convicted of statutory rape and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for ten years, on the grounds of the insufficiency of the evidence and error in the record.

The special grand jury which returned the indictment was ordered at the first day of the June term, 1920, which was the fourteenth day of the month. The venire was made returnable the next day. It is claimed that for this reason the grand jury was not legally impaneled. Section 19 of chapter 78 of the Revised…