State v. Deeds

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE ADAIR:

The defendant, Raymond L. Deeds, was convicted of burglary by a jury in the district court of Hill County, Montana. This is an appeal from the judgment of conviction and from the order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial.

At the outset of his trial on November 3, 1955, the defendant filed and caused to be presented to the trial judge defendant’s duly verified, specific and detailed written challenge to the jury panel drawn for Hill County for 1955 from which a jury was about to be drawn to try the defendant on the charges of which he was subsequently convicted.

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