Johnson v. State

OPINION

By SHERICK, J.

The plaintiff in error, Arel Johnson, was indicted, tried and convicted on a charge of second degree murder. From the judgment entered on the verdict, error is prosecuted to this court, upon one ground of error. It is the claim of the plaintiff in error that ho did not have a fair and impartial jury to pass upon his case, by reason of the fact that one of the jurors was the stepmother of the wife of the assistant prosecutor who tried the case. It is claimed that this fact was not known to the accused or his counsel at the time of the impaneling of the jury and that this…