Lundy v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From the Oily Court of Mobile. Tried before the lion. O. J. Semmes. The defendant in this case, Frank Lundy, was indicted lor the murder of Elias Farnell, was convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of ten years.
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From the Oily Court of Mobile. Tried before the lion. O. J. Semmes. The defendant in this case, Frank Lundy, was indicted lor the murder of Elias Farnell, was convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of ten years. The indictment contained three counts, the first charging that the deceased was killed “by striking him on the bead with a mattock;” the second, “by striking him with some blunt instrument, the name of which, and a more particular description of which, are to the grand jury unknown ; and the third, that it was done “m a manner, and by…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
The bill of exceptions contains the following recital with respect to the drawing of the jury : “The name -of one John 30. Hagan being drawn, he was sworn and examined by the court, and being declared by the court to be a competent juror, he was accepted by the State. The prisoner then proposed to ask said juror, for the purpose of ascertaining a ground for peremptory challenge, should it be deemed advisable, in what part of Mobile county, Alabama, he resided; how far from the Farnell neighborhood, and from the sight (?) of the murder; whether or not he wras very friendly with the deceased,…
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