The People v. Gierens

Plaintiffs in error, Frank C. Gierens and Nicholas J. Eerencak, were convicted in the circuit court of Carroll County for the larceny of $29.45. Each was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of not less than two nor more than four years. They sued a writ of error out of this court to review the record of their convictions. Errors relied upon for reversal are that the court improperly overruled plaintiffs in error’s challenge to the array of a special panel of fifty jurors; that court action material to plaintiffs in error’s case was taken in their absence; that the jurors named in the…