Wright v. State

The plaintiff in error was tried by a jury in the city court of La Grange, under an indictment charging him with the offense of playing and betting at cards. When the panel of jurors was put upon him, he challenged the array, in writing, upon the ground that Olin Carlton, one of the jury- commissioners, “who helped prepare the jury-list from which the jury-box was' prepared, from which said panel of jurors was drawn, was, at the time of his appointment as jury commissioner and at the time he helped prepare said jury list, a duly elected, cjualified, and acting justice of the peace of said…