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Show The Reason Why.- In impanncling the jury yesterday, in the Gee-Butcher case, indicted for the killing of Cotton, Mr. Levi Garrett, I of the panel, was challenged for cause, j counsel for defendant holding that I Mr. Garrett being a hanl-hcartcd but; I cjicr, and addicted to slaughtering 1 every day, was incompetent to serve 1 in the case of Butcher. When Mr. ' G. was asked if hc had any conscientious conscien-tious scruples against finding a ver-! ver-! diet ofguilty where (.he penalty was death, his reply was, " No! I kill I every day myself!" which the dc-' dc-' fensc thought sufficient reason for a challenge, and iho challenge was sus-tainal. sus-tainal. That's the reason whj. |