Jury Selected, Morgan Wright Is Placed on Trial for His Life

Winfield Daily Courier - December 21, 1893

THE COURTS.

The District Court Finally Secures a Jury and Morgan Wright

Is Placed on Trial for His Life.

The district court after exhausting the entire venire of the jurors drawn for this term of court instructed the sheriff to choose fifty men as talesmen and to empanel a jury from them. After so doing a jury was secured at 12 o'clock and at 1:30 the witnesses for the prosecution were called and sworn, when the trial of Morgan Wright, for his life, was begun.