State v. Carter

Dent, Judge:

George Carter obtained a writ of error to a judgment of the criminal court of Kanawha Coupty sentencing him to death for murder. Fie relies specially on two grounds of error as follows:

First, that the grand jury was improperly selected from the bystanders. Section 4, Article III, Constitution, provides that “No person shall be held to answer for treason or other crime, not cognizable by a justice, unless on presentment or indictment of a grand jury:”

Section 39, Article VI, Constitution, requires the legislature to provide by general law for the summoning and impaneling of grand…