State v. Leftwich

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Miller, J.

The defendant appeals from the sentence of death for murder. The record brings up ten bills of exception.

There was a motion to quash the indictment based on a challenge to the array of jurors for alleged irregularities in the drawing. It is *1195claimed that one of three who acted as jury commissioner had vacated his office by accepting the position of deputy sheriff, that persons other than the commissioners suggested names and participated in the drawing, and that all the names of the jury drawn for the term were not in the box when the grand…