Lingo v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Murder, in Cobb Superior Court. Tried before Judge Rice, at March Term, 1859. Albert J. Lingo, the plaintiff in error, was indicted for the murder of Robert Duncan. He pleaded not guilty, and the case came on for trial at March Term, 1859. In making up the jury, after the first panel of forty-eight had been exhausted, the Judge ordered the Sheriff to summon a second panel of talesmen, and to notify them as he summoned them, to come into Court.
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Murder, in Cobb Superior Court. Tried before Judge Rice, at March Term, 1859. Albert J. Lingo, the plaintiff in error, was indicted for the murder of Robert Duncan. He pleaded not guilty, and the case came on for trial at March Term, 1859. In making up the jury, after the first panel of forty-eight had been exhausted, the Judge ordered the Sheriff to summon a second panel of talesmen, and to notify them as he summoned them, to come into Court. The Sheriff, after summoning the requisite number, reported their names to the Judge, who ordered proclamation to be made at the door for all persons…
1Opinion of the Court
— Stephens J.
By the Court.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] We do not think there was error in the- constitution of the jury in this case. When the Sheriff, had been ordered to give each talesman notice to come into Court as he summoned them, and then proclamation had been made at the-door¿ that all talesmen were required to walk into Court j we-think sufficient effort had been used to secure the pressénce of those who had been summoned. • Besides, the prisoner had no right to have any particular persons on the panel. A- complete panel of men who were all present, was the one put on him.
[2.] We…
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