State v. Joseph

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

The accused was indicted for murder, and was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to imprisonment in the State penitentiary for a term of five years, and from the judgment and sentence has appealed.

I

The first proposition tendered for consideration is that embraced in the defendant’s motion to quash the indictment on the ground that the venire drawn by the jury commissioners from which the grand and petit juries were drawn was exclusively composed of persons of the white race and did not contain the name of a single person of the black,…