State v. Gales

The prisoner asserts by his assignments of error that the trial judge erred in denying his motion to quash the indictment, in admitting certain testimony of the State’s witness Gurney R. Lane, in refusing to withdraw from the petit jury the question of first degree murder, in charging the petit jury, in disallowing his motion for a vacation of the verdict and a new trial, in overruling bis motion in arrest of judgment, and in 'entering judgment.

Tbe indictment was returned at tbe November Term, 1953, of tbe Superior Court of Iloke County by tbe grand jury of eighteen members, nine of wbom were…