State v. Sopher
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from tbe Twenty-first District Court, Parish of St. Martin.' Fontelieu, J.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Manning, J.
The defendant was convicted of murder by a qualified verdict, and was sentenced to hard labor for life.
*9761. He challeged the array because there were not three hundred names in the jury box when the commissioners proceeded to draw the jury. The court had lasted four weeks. There were three hundred names in the box when the jury was drawn for the court, 110 having been drawn, and the drawing seems to have been sufficient for three weeks. The defendant’s trial came on in the fourth week, and another drawing was made from the 190 names that…
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