Boon v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
This was an indictment for murder, tried in the Superior Court of the County of Greene, before Judge Merriwether, at the September adjourned Term, 1846. For the history of the case and the errors assigned, see the opinion of the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court
Lumpkin, Judge.
This was a writ of error, to a judgment of the Superior Court of Greene County. The plaintiff in error was indicted for murder, convicted and *633sentenced to be hanged. There are several objections raised to the record and proceedings in the case.
It appears that when the prisoner was put on his trial and the jury about to be sworn, the defendant challenged the array, because the same was not arrayed by the sheriff or his lawful deputy — so far as related to the tales jurors presented on said panel; but that said tales jurors, to wit the eighteen last named in the…
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