Case ID: sw_235/html/0214-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HAWKINS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STROUD v. STATE.
    (No. 6374.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Nov. 23, 1921.)
    Grand jury <&wkey;5 — Indictment returned by grand jury of 10 men and 2 women is illegal.
    An indictment returned by a grand jury-composed of 10 men and 2 women is illegal.
    Appeal from ^District Court, McLennan County; Richard I. Munroe, Judge.
    Clyde Stroud was convicted of statutory rape, and he appeals.
    Reversed, and prosecution dismissed.
    Farmer & Parmer, of Waco, for appellant-
    R. H. Hamilton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   HAWKINS, J.

Conviction was for statutory rape. Punishment, 7 years in the penitentiary.

It is made to appear that the grand jury-which returned the indictment was composed of 10 men and 2 women. In Harper v. State (No. 6319) 234 S. W. 909, 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.