June 5, 1956 — June 22, 1956. APPEAL from a judgment and from an order of the circuit court for Price county: LEWIS J. CHARLES, Circuit Judge. Affirmed. For the appellant there was a brief and oral argument by Frank L. Nikolay of Abbotsford. For the respondent there was a brief by the Attorney General and William A. Platz, assistant attorney general, and Raymond H. Scott, district attorney of Taylor county, attorneys, and John H. Bowers, law examiner, of counsel, and oral argument by Mr. Platz. Homicide
December 5, 1941 — January 13, 1942. ERROR to review a judgment of the circuit court for Brown county: HENRY GRAASS, Circuit Judge. Affirmed. G. F. Clifford of Green Bay, for the plaintiff in error. For the defendant in error there was a brief by the Attorney General, William A. Platz, assistant attorney general, and Donald W. Gleason, district attorney of Brown county, and oral argument by Mr. Platz. Prosecution and conviction of Joseph Devroy for murder in the first degree for the killing of Emily
No. 15210. Delivered June 8, 1932. Reported in 51 S.W.2d 1116. Murder — Venire — Statute. In prosecution for murder, the special venire should have been quashed, since it was drawn under a statute which was held in Smith v. State, 120 Tex.Crim. Rep., 49 S.W.2d 739, to be invalid because a local law in violation of article 3, section 56 of the Constitution. Appeal from the District Court of McLennan County. Tried below before the Hon. D. W. Bartlett, Judge. Appeal from a conviction for murder; penalty