STURROCK v. STATE

No. 28,693.

229 Ind. 161 (1951)

96 N.E.2d 226

STURROCK v. STATE OF INDIANA.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

Filed January 19, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mellen & Mellen, of Bedford, for appellant.

J. Emmett McManamon, Attorney General; Frank E. Coughlin, George W. Hand and Norman J. Beatty, Deputy Attorneys General, for appellee.


DRAPER, J.

The appellant shot her grandson to death. She was tried by jury, convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and sentenced to prison.

Although all of the prospective jurors, on voir dire examination, indicated they were resident voters and freeholders or householders in Lawrence County, it developed that one of them, a Paul Edwards, who had formerly been in business in Huron, in Lawrence County, and who...

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