State v. Burch

The defendant was tried and convicted in the court below of the crime of maintaining a liquor nuisance. The court sentenced him to confinement in the county jail for a term of one year. The exceptions argued are numerous, but we deem it necessary to discuss only a part of them.

I. Elmer Hammond, who was one of the judges of election of Knoxville Township at the general election held in Marion County, November 4,1924, was certified by the judges of election for jury service. This fact was unknown to the defendant and his attorneys, and, apparently, to everyone else connected with the trial of…