Cumming v. State

Simmons, Chief Justice.

Dave Gumming and two other persons were jointly indicted for murder. He was found guilty, and his motion for a new trial being overruled, he excepted.

1. One of the grounds of the motion is that the court erred in refusing to rule, immediately after the first panel of the jury was put on the accused, that they were entitled to sixty strikes, that is to say, twenty strikes for each defendant. After the first juror on the panel had qualified and had been put upon the accused, counsel for the accused informed the court' that they would claim this number of strikes. Counsel…