State v. Striplin

The defendant was convicted of murder, without capital punishment, and sentenced to imprisonment in the Penitentiary for the rest of his life. He has appealed from the verdict and sentence, and relies upon three bills of exception.

The first bill relates to the overruling of a motion to quash the indictment. It was charged in the motion that the selection of the grand jury panel and the drawing of the petit jury panel, by the jury commission, was illegal because one of the two witnesses to the proceedings was the chief deputy clerk of court; and it was charged that the grand jury that indicted…