State v. Rector

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Bermudez, C. J.

The defendant, indicted for murder and convicted, appeals from the sentence of death passed upon him.

The record contains three bills of exception.

The first relates to the time at which the jury was drawn.

The second refers to the irregularity of the copy of the indictment and the list of jurors served, and to the irrelevancy of oral testimony to prove the irregularity and to show service.

The third concerns the admission of oral testimony to prove the contents of the dying declaration.

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The complaint in the first bill is, that the jury was…