State v. Gunter

FOURNET, Justice.

The defendant has appealed from his. conviction of manslaughter on a charge by indictment of having committed the crime of murder and, for the reversal thereof, relies on several bills of exceptions reserved to the rulings of the trial judge.

The first bill was reserved to the overruling of a motion to quash the indictment based on the ground that one of the members of the grand jury which returned the indictment against the defendant had a felony charge pending against him at the time he was selected and served on the grand jury.

Being charged with a capital crime, the accused…