Price v. Commonwealth

MOREMEN, Judge.

Appellant, Carl Samuel Price, was indicted for the crime of murder, tried in the Pulaski Circuit Court, found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment.

The appellant, before the trial began, moved to discharge the entire petit jury panel on the ground that it had not been selected in accordance with the requirements of sections 29.115 and 29.135 of Kentucky Revised Statutes. Subsection (1) of the latter section is, in part:

“At each term of circuit courts having terms, the judge shall, in open court, draw from the drum a sufficient number of names not to…