Jenkins v. State

BROWN, Justice.

The appellant, Ben Jenkins, was indicted by a grand jury organized in the Jefferson County Circuit Court, for a capital felony. He was duly tried and convicted of this offense by a jury drawn, summoned and organized as provided by Subdivision 5, Tit. 62, of the Code of 1940, which embraces Section 196 to Section 228, inclusive— a codification of the law enacted and operating in Jefferson County prior to the adoption of the code — the dominant purpose of which, as appears from its provisions, was. to provide secret venires for use in the courts of that county for the trial of…