Baker v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Fulton

Reversing.

At the August term, 1938, of tlie Leslie Circuit Court on September 2, the appellants, Clifton Baker and Craft Baker, were placed on trial on a charge of murder. The selection of the jury was completed on the following day, which was Saturday. Thirteen jurors were selected for the trial, eleven men and two women, and a part of the evidence was heard on Saturday, when court adjourned until Monday. The male jurors were placed in charge of a male guard and the female jurors in charge of a female guard. On Saturday night the Circuit Judge excused one…