Wilson v. State

BROWN, Justice.

The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree and was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. He appeals from the judgment of conviction.

The defendant before arraignment pleaded in abatement to the indictment, setting up numerous grounds involving alleged irregularities by the jury commission in filling the jury box and in making the jury roll; — in failing to put the names of all qualified jurors in the box; in systematically and intentionally excluding from the jury roll and box “all such male citizens who were on October 1, 1945, actually engaged in teaching…