Sturrock v. State

The appellant shot her grandson to death. She was tried by jury, convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and sentenced to prison.

Although all of the prospective jurors, on voir dire examination, indicated they were resident voters and freeholders or householders in Lawrence County, it developed that one of them, a Paul Edwards, who had formerly been in business in Huron, in Lawrence County, and who had always had a box at the postoffice there, and had always voted there, was actually living at the time about a mile and a half over the county line in Martin County.

On the last day of the trial,…