State v. Caulfield

The defendants were indicted for the crime of murder, found guilty without capital punishment, and sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for life. They have appealed, and claim a new trial upon the following grounds presented by their hills of exceptions:

Pirst — That after the venire of jurors had been exhausted and the bystanders in the courthouse had been summoned as talesmen and their number exhausted, the court ordered the sheriff to summon fifty citizens from the community to act as talesmen. We understand from this that, the jury being yet incomplete, the sheriff was sent out into the…