Lee v. State

Appellant, W. J. Lee, was indicted, tried and convicted in the circuit court of Forrest county of the crime of murder and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. From that judgment he prosecutes- this appeal.

Appellant was awarded a special venire. Over his objection the clerk by order of the court issued a special venire facias to the sheriff for fifty men. Appellant insisted that a special venire be drawn from the jury boxes prepared by the board of supervisors under section 2688, Code of 1906, section 2180, Hemingway’s Code. The court refused to draw the special venire from the jury boxes…