96 Miss. 653
Decided March 15, 1910
Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1910-03-15
Hbom the circuit court, first district, Panola county. HoN. William A. HoaNE, Judge. House, appellant, was indicted and tried for and convicted of' unlawfully selling intoxicating liquors. One of the petit jurors who was empanneled to and did try him was a member of the-grand jury which at a former term of the court preferred the indictment. On his voir dire examination he affirmed that he was not on the grand jury which found the indictment.
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Decided 1910-03-15
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¶1delivered the opinion of the court.
¶2In this case a member of the grand jury which found the indictment in this case sat upon the petit jury which tried the appellant. It was held in Beason v. State, 34 Miss. 604, that this was fatal error. Reversed and remanded.