State v. Somnier

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Poché, J.

The defendant having been convicted of murder, without *238capital punishment, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life, urges, on appeal, the following grounds for relief, which we shall review in the order in which they are presented:

1st. He complains of the refusal of the judge to sustain his motion to quash the array of jurors, on the ground that the clerk of the court had participated in the drawing thereof, as ex officio jury commissioner, which latter office he could not hold, under the constitutional provision prohibiting any one from…