State v. White

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Miller, J.

The defendant appeals from the sentence of ten years imprisonment for manslaughter.

It is urged the court erred in overruling the motion to quash the indictment. The grounds of the motion to quash were that the ballots or slips of paper were not written by the clerk, and did not contain the number of the ward or place of residence of the jurors. The testimony is that the names of three of the jurors on the ballots drawn from the box to form the petit jury were in handwriting not known to the clerk of the court, and from this the conclusion is…