State v. Stephens

The defendant was convicted of violating the Local Option Law upon an indictment found by a grand jury, fined $600 and sentenced to eight months in jail. He appeals.

There are hut two questions involved. One of them is that the trial court erred in accepting as a juror, over defendant’s objection, one who was a member of the West Plains’ Commercial Club, the place at which the crime was committed, and was present at a meeting of that organization when a resolution was adopted reading as follows:

“Whereas this Commercial Club stands for law, and its enforcement, for the conviction and punishment…