State v. Jones

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

This is a writ of error to a conviction of murder in the first degree without recommendation of life imprisonment.

A number of points are made for reversal, but we find it unnecessary to decide at this time any but the first, which, in our judgment, points clearly to harmful error committed by the trial court.

Defendant is a negro. Before the jury was selected from the special panel of forty-eight, provided by law to be selected from the general panel (Criminal Procedure act, section 82, Comp. Slat., p. 1847) defendant challenged the array, in…