Conner v. Denney

HENRY M. GRIFFIN, Special Commissioner.

The principal question before this court is whether it was error for the trial judge on the first day of the term of court, after determining that the jury panel lacked three persons of the number required by law, to direct the sheriff to summon three bystanders to complete the panel.

On the day of trial the appellant moved the court to strike the three bystanders from the regular panel on the ground that the bystanders were not drawn from the drum as required by KRS 29.280.

The trial judge sustained appellant’s motion in regard to juror Charlie Sterns,…