Long v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From the City Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. O. J. Semmes. The defendant in this case, Ellis Long, was indicted for willfully setting fire to “a dwelling-house of Thomas Martin, in which there was at the time a human being;” was convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of eighteen years.
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From the City Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. O. J. Semmes. The defendant in this case, Ellis Long, was indicted for willfully setting fire to “a dwelling-house of Thomas Martin, in which there was at the time a human being;” was convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of eighteen years. Before entering on the trial, the defendant moved to dismiss the prosecution, “on the ground that he was made a .witness for the State in a prosecution before the mayor of Mobile against one John Wilson for this same offense, and subsequently on an application by said Wilson for…
1Opinion of the CourtClopton, J.
1. The original venire having been exhausted without completing the jury, the City Court directed the judge of probate to bring into court what is known as “the City Court jury-box”, from which fifty names were drawn as talesmen in open court. The jury still being incomplete, the same proceeding was repeated, except- that, the key of the box not being obtainable, it was opened by a key procured from the solicitor. Objection was taken to this manner of drawing jurors, on the ground that, by the act of February 16, 1885, it was the duty of the judge of probate to deliver to the clerk of the…
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