State v. . Emery

Criminal prosecution tried upon indictment charging the defendants and another, in six counts, with violations of the prohibition laws.

Upon the trial, after the regular panel of jurors and most of the male bystanders had been exhausted, the sheriff called from among the bystanders two women of good moral character, freeholders and residents of the county, and they were accepted by the solicitor as satisfactory jurors. The defendants moved the court to excuse both women from jury service for the reason that they were not qualified, because of their sex, to serve as petit jurors. Overruled;…