Hoback v. Commonwealth

HarrisoN, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court. ■

The plaintiff in error was found guilty of murder in the second degree, and sentenced by the Circuit Court of Floyd county, in accordance with the verdict of the jury, to penal servitude for a term of eight years. To this judgment a writ of error was awarded, bringing the case before us for review.

It appears from the record that the judge appointed to hold the court at which the prisoner was tried wrote to the clerk of the court to summon “thirty first-class men for the first day of the term to serve as veniremen.” Upon receipt of this letter…