Sewall v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Under an indictment charging murder appellant was given the death penalty.

1. A bill of exceptions recites that when the special venire came to be drawn all of the jurors selected by the jury commissioners had been exhausted except thirty. .These were drawn and the sheriff instructed by the court to summon seventy additional jurors, making one hundred in all. The sheriff went to the tax rolls and selected a certain number of names from each justice precinct of the county. This he apportioned among the precincts he says as equitably as he could. After doing this he…