Avila v. United States

CAVANAH, District Judge.

The grand jury for the Southern District of California, Central Division, returned an indictment against appellant charging him with the crime of murder, on property within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States. He was convicted by a jury of murder in the first degree, without capital punishment, and sentenced to life imprisonment. He brings this appeal and urges error in the procedure adopted by the court in the impaneling of the jury, wherein he was deprived of the right to exercise twenty peremptory challenges, as granted to him by statute, and also…