State v. Hamilton

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Todd, J.

The defendant appeals from a sentence of five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary for burglary and larceny.

We find in the transcript three bills of exceptions taken against the rulings of the Judge a quo during the progress of the trial:

1. The first bill was taken to the action of the Judge in excusing from jury duty a person employed as pilot on a United Stated Government vessel and summoned as a tales juror, excused after the accused had exhausted her peremptory challenges, and the juror, as claimed, not being legally exempt from jury…