Williams v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is theft of cattle. The punishment assessed is confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of five years.

When the case was called for trial, appellant made a motion to quash the indictment on the ground that R. E. Davis, who was a member of the grand jury which returned the indictment in this case, was not a qualified grand juror in this, that he had not paid his poll tax for the year 1938 prior to the first day of February, 1939; that there were 1,200 adult male citizens between the ages of 21 and 60 years in Robertson County, who were qualified voters, had…