State v. Jackson

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Bermudez, C. J.

The defendant, indicted for murder and found guilty without capital punishment, appeals from the judgment sentencing him for life to hard labor in the State penitentiary.

The record contains three bills of exception.

The first relates to the rejection of a juror who, at the time, was charged with the crime of arson.

The District Judge had a right to take official knowledge of the existence of the prosecution of the juror for that offense before his own court, in sucli a case.

The offense charged was an infamous crime, punishable with hard…