State v. . Anderson

Subsequent to the passing of the death sentence, the prisoner: challenged the validity of his trial for two reasons not theretofore advanced by him. He then asserted for the first time that the court was “illegally constituted and without authority to try and sentence him at the term beginning August 25, 1947, as the commission of the Governor commissioned Judge Henry A. Grady to hold a term of court in Pitt County beginning on Monday, the 25th day of July, 1947,” and that the members of the petit jury “who were of the special venire were illegally summoned and, therefore not duly constituted…