Sullivan v. State

The appellant, Dewey Sullivan, was indicted and tried on a charge of murdering one George Smith, and convicted of murder, and sentenced to the state penitentiary for life.

The principal assignment of error is that the court erred in sustaining a challenge for cause to one of the jurors, H. H. Langford, who had1 been accepted and sworn to try the case with eleven others; but before the taking of any evidence the state discovered that there was some question as to whether the juror was a qualified elector. The twelve jurors had been accepted and sworn on Saturday, and the court had adjourned…