United States v. Rondeau

This matter is submitted on the demurrer to ploas to an indictment. The substance of the pleas is that there was default in the manner of drawing the grand jury which found this indictment, in this: that there were, at the time of the drawing, the names of hut 303 persons in the box; that of those persons three were-ineligible and three were dead. There can be no question but that the objection is properly presented to the court by a plea in abatement. The clerk and commissioner stand in place of the sheriff, so far as his functions have been transferred to them, and if their acts in…