Yates v. State

At a term of the Circuit Court of Clay county held in October 1900, plaintiffs in error were indicted, tried and convicted of the larceny of a cow, the property of J. W. Lucas, and from the sentences imposed sued out this writ of error.

I. Before the jurors composing the grand jury that found the indictment! against plaintiffs in error were sworn, the attorney for Thomas Yates interposed in be*179half of his client a challenge to certain members thereof upon the following grounds: First, that J. W. Lucas was the prosecuting witness against Yates; second, that S. F. Hanford was under prosecution…