State v. Creech

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Poci-ié, J.

Convicted of manslaughter under a charge of murder, the defendant seeks relief by two bills of exception.

I

The first bill involves the formation of the jury. After exhausting the list of jurors of the regular venire who had answered, the court ordered twenty-five tales jurors, and had therefrom selected two jurors, and had drawn from the box five additional names thereof, when a jury composed mainly of jurors of the regular venire, engaged up to that time on another case, appeared, reported and were discharged. Whereupon the court ordered, on…