State v. Mitchell

Defendant was charged with having struck, cut, stabbed, and thrust Manse Smith with intent to kill. He was convicted of the offense, and sentenced to the penitentiary.

Defendant’s first bill of exceptions is to the overruling of a motion to quash the indictment. This bill is not argued in defendant’s brief, but nevertheless we have given it consideration.

The first ground of the motion to quash is that G. W. Brewster participated as a member of the jury commission in the selection of the venire of grand jurors from which was drawn the grand jury that returned the indictment in this case, when…