Buchanan v. State

Plaintiff in error was convicted, without recommendation, in the circuit court for Taylor County of the murder of W. C. Mobray, and sentenced to death. The judgment of conviction is before us on writ of error.

A motion in arrest of judgment was filed by plaintiff in error, containing several grounds. Only one of them is insisted upon in argument. That ground alleges that the board of county commissioners, in making up a list of jurors, from which came the jurors rendering the verdict, did not make out a list of not less than two hundred and fifty persons as required by the statute and the…