State v. De Lorenzo

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummere, Chief Justice.

The indictment upon which the defendants in this case were convicted charged them with the offence of keeping a disorderly house. When the case was moved for trial the defence interposed a challenge to the array of petit jurors then in attendance upon the court, on the ground that the panel was not composed of jurors who were drawn for the then present service by the sheriff, but that, in violation of the constitutional guaranty of trial by jury, it was composed partly of j urors drawn for that service by the sheriff, and partly…