Gropp v. People

The defendant, George Gro.pp, was indicted for murder, and convicted of manslaughter, in the Madison circuit court, and sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of six years.

He brings the record here, and insists upon two supposed errors as grounds for a reversal of the judgment, both which respect his challenges of jurors.

The trial was had at the October term, 1872.

It appears that on the second Monday of the term, upon calling the twenty-four jurors who had been summoned for that week of the term by the sheriff, in obedience to the venire to him issued, only fifteen of them answered to…