State v. Moreau

One of the defendants, Thomas Moreau, has appealed from the verdict of a jury convicting him of murder, and from a sentence to the penitentiary for life, based on that verdict.

When called for trial, Moreau filed a motion to quash the venire of petit jurors from which was about to be drawn a petit jury for the purpose of trying him. The motion to quash is based on the ground that Gustave Euselier and J. G. Lawler, two of the jury commissioners, who, it is alleged, participated in drawing the venire, had vacated their offices by accepting appointments as members of the hoards of supervisors of…