State v. Hatfield

McWhorter, President:

Elias Hatfield was .indicted in the circuit court of Mingo County for the murder of H. E. Ellis on the first day of June, 1899, and was convicted hy the verdict of a jury of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to a term of twelve years in the penitentiary. The prisoner obtained from this Court a writ of error, and says the court erred in empaneling the jury “in this, .that after selecting a panel of twenty jurors free from ex ception, the court proceeded and had examined eight other jurymen free from charge, and refused to permit the twenty jurors first selected to…