Morris v. State

The indictment charged murder in the first degree. When the defendants were arraigned for trial, the court entered an order to summon a special venire from the county of Winston, but limited in said order the drawing of the veniremen to the jury box containing names of qualified jurors in the Double Springs division of Winston county. The defendants objected to being tried by a jury so drawn, and moved to quash the venire on the ground that the order did not include jurors from the entire county. By act of the Legislature 1919 (Loc. Acts 1919, p. 164), there is created a division of the…