State v. Robertson

i. jury: waiver of statutory privilege. No bill of exceptions, nor anything purporting to be a bill of exceptions, was filed in the cause, and we can, therefore, consider only such . „ . ,, , errors, if any, as appear m the record proper. The defendant was indicted for burglary in the first degree- and grand larceny. In criminal trials the State, in all cases punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary,“not less than a specified number of years,” is entitled to challenge peremptorily six, and the defendant twelve jurors. 2 Wag. Stat., § 4 p. 1102. The punishment prescribed for burglary of…