People v. Brown

Defendant, on error, seeks to test the validity of the method employed by the recorder’s court for the city of Detroit in impaneling a jury.

Before Hon. Thomas M. Cotter, presiding judge of the court, the case of People v. Pinckney came on for trial. The names of all the jurors being in the box, the clerk drew twelve names and the twelve jurors were sworn on voir dire. Then Judge Cotter announced the assigning of the case of People v. Carl Brown, defendant here, to Hon. Harry B. Keidan, another judge of that court. All remaining names of jurors being in the box, the clerk, by direction of…