State v. Richards

MilleR, Judge :

Defendants were indicted, tried and convicted of the murder of James Powell, on the night of December 23, 1924, at his home in Doddridge County, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for the period of their natural lives.

To reverse the judgment of imprisonment pronounced on April 25, 1925, counsels’ first proposition is, that the jury trying the ease was unlawfully impaneled, in that the panel of twenty jurors from which the trial jury was selected were not qualified jurors. On their voir dire seven of the panel had stated that they had made up and expressed an…