State v. Brown

Defendant was convicted of murder without capital punishment, and from a sentence of life imprisonment prosecutes this appeal, relying upon nine bills of exception for a reversal of the judgment of the court below.

Opinion.

The first four bills may all be treated together, for the reason that they all involve the qualification of one of the jury commissioners.

Bill No. 1 covers the overruling of a motion to quash the indictment on the ground that the said commissioner, according to the minutes of the court, had not been appointed and qualified as such, thereby invalidating the grand jury which…