State v. Ashworth

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

The defendant was indicted for the crime of burglary, found guilty of larceny, and from a sentence to one year’s imprisonment at hard labor, prosecutes this appeal.

*684I-Iis chief complaint is of the refusal of the trial judge to sustain a motion to quash the indictment on the ground that the clerk of court had not taken the oath as jury commissioner "before the drawing of the venire of jurors from which the grand jury that found it was drawn and empaneled.

In support of this motion the clerk was introduced as a witness by whom to prove the fact…