Boykin v. People

Under an indictment charging him with the murder of *497Milton Smith, the plaintiff in error Robert J. Boykin was convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for a term of ten years. To this judgment he prosecutes his writ of error in this court, assigning for error numerous rulings by the trial court: First, errors relating to the rulings of the court upon defendant’s objection to the manner of summoning the jury and to his challenge to the array of jurors therefor; second, insufficiency of the evidence ; third, errors of the court in admitting and…