Butler v. State

Simmons, Justice.

1. Ambrose and Charles Butler were indicted and tried jointly for murder. The court below, over objection by counsel for the accused, permitted counsel for the State to challenge peremptorily twenty of the jurors impaneled to try the case, holding that each defendant was entitled to twenty peremptory challenges and the State to half of the whole number allowed to both. This ruling is complained of in the motion for a new trial. Section 4643 of the code declares, that “ Every person indicted for a crime or offence which may subject him or her, on conviction, to death, or four…