Gaytan v. State

LATTIMORE, J.

Conviction for selling intoxicating liquor; punishment, one year in the penitentiary.

A witness testified positively to the fact that he bought from appellant a pint of whis-ky.

There are three bills of exception. The first complains of 'the refusal of the court to quash the indictment. The complaint is based on the proposition that the jury commissioners who drew the grand jury were not author-j ized so to do. The court heard evidence. The facts showed that at the July term, 1929, jury commissioners were 'duly appointed, and that they drew the grand jury for the September term, same being the. next succeeding term. "This was in accordance with the provisions of title 7, O. O. P. (article 333 et seq.), providing for the organization of a grand jury.

Bill of exceptions No. .2 complains of the fact that, after appellant had refused to enter his plea to the indictment, the court had the plea entered for him. If we understand the bill, appellant suggested to the court, in accordance with article 496, O. O. P., that he was not indicted under his true name, and upon such suggestion the court had appellant’s name corrected in the indictment to correspond with that suggested, and, if we comprehend it, the court also suggested that the other records he corrected so as to make them speak the same fact. We think this latter. proceeding wholly unnecessary, hut not of that erroneous character that would call for a reversal. It is sufficient in such case that the record show an order of the court declaring that appellant suggested that his name is not correctly stated,- and that the indictment was made to accord with the suggestion of the accused.

Appellant’s third bill of exceptions 'complains of the fact that in his address to the jury the prosecuting attorney called two of them by their names. The bill does not set out what was said further, or make known to us any possibility of injury.

No reversible error appearing, the judgment is affirmed.