DocketNumber： No. 6374.
Citation Numbers： 235 S.W. 214, 90 Tex. Crim. 286, 1921 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 115
Judges： Hawkins
Filed Date： 11/23/1921
Status： Precedential
Modified Date： 10/19/2024
Conviction was for statutory rape. Punishment seven years in the penitentiary.
It is made to appear that the grand jury which returned the indictment was composed of ten men and two women. In Harper v. State, 90 Tex.Crim. Rep., No. 6319, recently decided, such indictment was held to be void.
The judgment of the trial court is reversed, and the prosecution under the present indictment ordered dismissed.
Reversed and Dismissed.