Walford v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from tlie circuit court of Leflore county. HoN. Mormon McClubg, Judge. Alonzo Walford was convicted of murder and appeals.
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Appeal from tlie circuit court of Leflore county. HoN. Mormon McClubg, Judge. Alonzo Walford was convicted of murder and appeals. On appeal, among other errors, appellant assigns the refusal to grant instruction number 22 asked by Mm, which is as follows: “The court charges the jury for the defendant that each and every member of the jury is a judge of the evidence and whether the defendant is ■ probably guilty or not, and, if any member of this jury believe the defendant not guilty of the crime, it is your •duty to stand for acquittal in this case, even if all of your fellows, except…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
We find no reversible error in this record, and deem it necessary to notice specifically only two of the assignments of error.
Appellant, having demanded a special venire, and the jury box being exhausted, the court directed the sheriff *26to summon forty men for service as jurors in the case, if necessary. The sheriff thereupon selected from the list of qualified voters forty names, handed, a list thereof to the clerk, and they were by him embodied in a writ issued to the sheriff. Of this number only thirty were summoned; the sheriff’s return showing that the remaining ten were not found.…
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