Channell v. State

W. T. Channell was placed on trial in Montgomery superior court, under an indictment charging him with the murder of W. H. Thompson. Before proceeding to trial on the merits of the case, the accused challenged the array of jurors, upon the ground that the list of jurors was illegally made up, because one of the jury commissioners who participated in preparing the list was not a jury commissioner at the time, as he had moved from the county of Montgomery to the county of Laurens. The State’s counsel demurred to this challenge, and to the judgment of the court sustaining the demurrer the…