Summers v. State Ex Rel. Boykin

W. W. Scarborough was indicted in the Eulton superior court for “flogging”—assault and battery. His ease was assigned for trial on March 26, 1941. Herbert Dodson was drawn to serve in the criminal division of the court as a juror for that week, and subsequently served as a juror during that time and was selected as a juror in the Scarborough case. The defendant in this case, a mail carrier who carried mail to Mr. Dodson’s home, was a nephew of Scarborough. On March 21, prior to Dodson’s service as a juror but after he had been drawn, knowing he had been so drawn to serve, the defendant went…