Clark v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of corporation court of city of Danville, rendered February 20, 1893, upon a verdict of the jury of guilty of manslaughter in the trial of an indictment against one J. T. Clark for the murder of J. R Moffett, sentencing him to confinement for the period of five years in the State penitentiary. To this judgment the prisoner obtained a writ of error and supersedeas. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
1. The first point made in the petition for the writ of error, and insisted upon in the argument here, is that the jury that tried the prisoner was not a lawful jury.
One of the grounds of this objection is that, after an unsuccessful attempt had been made to obtain a jury in Danville the court ordered a venire, to be directed to the sergeant of Lynchburg, commanding him to summon twenty-four persons from that city, which was done, but that no list was furnished of the names of persons to be summoned. It is contended that such a list ought to have…
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