State v. Cook
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Raleigh Cbunty. Ed Cook was convicted of murder in the first' degree, and from a judgment of the circuit court for Raleigh county, refusing to grant him a writ of error to a judgment of the criminal court of the county, he brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Ritz, Judge:
From a judgment of the circuit court of Raleigh county refusing' to grant to him a writ of error to a jüdgment of the *689criminal court of said county convicting Mm of murder in the first degree, and sentencing him to imprisonment for life., the defendant prosecutes this writ of error.
The first question presented is, whether or not the triál court erred in refusing to quash the indictment, and in refusing to quash the panel of petit jurors summoned to try the defendant, upon the ground that colored men were excluded from the grand jury wMch found the indictment, and from the petit…
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