State v. Craighead

The defendant in this case, having been separately indicted for the murders of two persons, the prosecutions were by consent consolidated, and he was thereupon tried, convicted, and sentenced. The ■case presented to this court is to he found in two bills-of exceptions, the first of which sets forth that at the close of the first day’s trial the judge instructed the sheriff “to keep five jurymen, who had been accepted and sworn, and seven men, who had been called into the box, but who had not been examined or sworn, together,” during the night and until the commencement of the trial the next…