Slater v. Commonwealth

The accused was indicted for the larceny of an automobile, the property of one Louis Hyatt. Upon his trial by a jury, he was found guilty of grand larceny and his punishment fixed at .three years’ confinement in the penitentiary. Judgment was entered in accordance with the finding of the jury.

This writ of error is to that judgment.

The dominant assignment of error is the refusal of the trial court to quash the writ of venire facias.

The facts touching this assignment of error are as follows: After the jury had been sworn upon their voir dire, and before the jury had been sworn' to try the case,…