Ellis v. State

The plaintiff in error was by the grand jury of Sumter county indicted for the offense of incestuous adultery. He was tried and convicted, and to the overruling of a motion for a new trial made by him he excepted. It was contended by counsel for plaintiff in error, that the judge had no legal power to excuse from service a juror who had been drawn and summoned, on the ground that such service would interfere with the private business of the person so drawn; and that the failure of the trial judge to sustain the challenge to the array of jurors, made in this case by the defendant at the time…