Eccles v. Commonwealth

John Eccles was tried by a jury in the Corporation Court of the City of Charlottesville and found guilty of selling marijuana. By judgment order entered on the verdict on February 5, 1971, he was fined $500 and sentenced to confinement in the State Penitentiary for three years. We granted a writ of error to the judgment order limited to two assignments of error, one relating to denial of access to the master jury list and the other relating to admissibility of evidence.

Eccles contends that the trial court erred in refusing to give him access to the master jury list for the purpose of…