State v. Scott

The defendant appeals from a death sentence on a prosecution for murder.

A motion to quash the indictment because returned by an illegal grand jury, and another to quash the venire of the petit jury, were made on the ground that R. A. Munson, who acted as one of the jury commissioners, was disqualified to hold such office; that his presence on the jury commission, as member thereof, on the day of the drawing of the jury was necessary to make a quorum of that body; that his disqualification resulted from the fact that he was also, at the time he acted as jury commissioner, commissioner of a…