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Whatley v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Jun 8, 1932
121 Tex. Crim. 457 (Tex. Crim. App. 1932)

Opinion

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, confinement in the penitentiary for five years.

Reversed and remanded.

The opinion states the case.

Miller Price, of Waco, for appellant.

Lloyd W. Davidson, State's Attorney, of Austin, for the State.


The offense is murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for five years.

A former appeal is reported in 117 Tex.Crim. Rep., 36 S.W.2d at page 751.

The special venire from which the jury was selected was drawn from jurors selected under the provisions of chapter 151, Special Laws of the Forty-Second Legislature (1931), at its Regular Session. (Vernon's Ann. Civ. St., art. 2116a, secs. 1-5). Appellant made a motion to quash the venire on the ground that the act in question was a local law in violation of the provisions of article 3, section 56 of the Constitution of Texas. In the case of Cecil Smith v. the State of Texas,, 120 Tex. Crim. 431, 49 S.W.2d 739, delivered April 20, 1932, it was held that the act was invalid, in that it was a local law in violation of the provisions of article 3, section 56 of the Constitution.

The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.

Reversed and remanded.

The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the Court.


Summaries of

Whatley v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Jun 8, 1932
121 Tex. Crim. 457 (Tex. Crim. App. 1932)
Case details for

Whatley v. State

Case Details

Full title:LEE WHATLEY v. THE STATE

Court:Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Date published: Jun 8, 1932

Citations

121 Tex. Crim. 457 (Tex. Crim. App. 1932)
51 S.W.2d 1116

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