Borland v. State

Appellant was indicted and tried for murder in the first degree, in the Crittenden Circuit Court, for killing Frank Heath, a negro, at Hulbert, Arkansas, on the 10th day of August, 1922. He was found guilty of murder in the second degree and adjudged to serve a term of ten years in the State Penitentiary for punishment therefor, from which is this appeal.

Appellant was indicted jointly with John J. Keeley, Will Townsend and Dudley Clegg, for said crime. They filed a motion to quash the indictment on the alleged ground that Lee Cook, a member of the grand jury which returned the indictment, was…