People v. Shaw

Defendant, Herschel Shaw, participated with 2 others in stealing a television set and 2 stereo record players from a Flint business establishment during the evening of May 15, 1963. He was subsequently convicted by jury of the crime of breaking and entering in the nighttime * and sentenced to a term of 5 to 15 years at the State prison of Southern Michigan at Jackson.

The pertinent facts to this review are as follows: Defendant Shaw’s trial began with the impaneling of a jury in the late afternoon of October 15, 1963. He attended this selection of a jury with codefendant Smith, codefendant…