State v. West

Defendant was indicted at the November term, 1878, of the circuit court of Cooper county, for the murder of a man whose name was to the jurors unknown-At the January term, 1879, of said court, he was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to-be hanged. Erom the judgment of the circuit court, he has appealed, assigning numerous errors as having occurred in the trial, among them: First, The rejection by the court for iucompetency of the following persons summoned as jurors, viz.: W. Parker, A. Santer, J. P. Moore, Geo. Eluke and W. IT. Moore. Second, That the…