McDaniel v. State

The defendant objected to being put to trial at the time the case was called and moved the court to reset the case alleging prejudice on the part of the jury by reason of the fact that twelve cases of similar nature had been set for the same day, two of them had been tried before two separate juries, and that all of the jurors in attendance on the court had been hearing the evidence, and that large crowds were in attendance on the court. He further charges that the clerk had taken the case from the docket of Judge Steele, one of the circuit judges, and without the consent of the defendant had…