Good Old Days

8 years ago

The Commoner, June 16, 1893

The first venire of jurors in the Samuel McCown murder case was quashed without much expenditure of time. A dozen men had good reasonable excuses for not wanting to spend an indefinite number of days as a murder trial juror. Some had farms that would suffer from want of attention; some had sickness at home and a few were sick themselves. So the court ordered a fresh venire of twenty-four qualified jurors to be returned at 11 o'clock tomorrow. The motion to exhume the body of Langford Summers was, after some argument, granted by Judge Sullivan with thes...