Alexander v. State

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Hill County of pursuing the business of selling intoxicating liquor in local option territory.

The most serious question in the case arises on a motion to quash the indictment on the ground that the bill was returned after the term of court had expired by operation of law. The indictment was returned April 25, 1917. The Act of the Thirty-fourth Legislature, page 218, hereafter referred to as the Act of 1915, reads as follows:

"The terms of the District Court of the Sixty-sixth Judicial District of Texas, comprising the County of Hill, shall be…