Case ID: sw_234/html/0911-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LATTIMORE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STORMS v. STATE.
    (No. 6376.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas,
    Nov. 9, 1921.)
    Appeal from District Court, McLennan County; Richard- I. Munroe, Judge., - • ■ -
    R. H. Storms was convicted of felony theft, and he appeals.
    Reversed and'diSfnissed.
    R. H. Hamilton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   LATTIMORE, J.

Appellant was convicted in the district court of McLennan county of felony theft, and his punishment fixgd at nine years in the penitentiary.

Appellant filed his plea to the jurisdiction and motion to quash the indictment upon the ground that the grand jury which indicted him was composed .of ten men and two women and was hence not á legal grand jury, and that the indictment returned was void. This matter has received our careful consideration, and in an opinion handed down by Associate Justice Hawkins in cause No. 6369, Harper v. State, 234 S. W. 909, this day decided, we have held a grand jury so composed to be illegal and an indictment so found to be void. Without discussing the matter further than to refer to said opinion, we believe appellant’s motion and plea should have been sustained, and that- the judgment of conviction must be reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.