State v. . McEntire

The defendant was found guilty, and upon being brought up to receive judgment, the following reasons in arrest were offered by his counsel:

1. That the county court of Rutherford had returned to the (268) Superior Court of the same county forty jurors as a venire, whereas they had authority by law to return only thirty; and that the grand jury who found the bill were composed out of the venire so improperly returned.

2. That John Hardcastle was a juror on the coroner's inquest, and also one of the grand jury by whom the bill was found.

3. That the transcript sent from one court to the other does…