Boyd & Jones v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Moorman

Affirming.

Appellants, Tom Boyd and Hillard Jones, were jointly indicted and tried in the Fayette circuit _ court for the crime of robbery. They were each convicted and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for five years. *74In their joint motion for a new trial,ten reasons were assigned, five of which are argued here as grounds for a reversal of the judgment.

The first contention is that the motion to quash the indictment should have been sustained, because the names of women were not placed in the wheel from which the grand jury that returned the…