Inter-Ocean Casualty Co. v. Banks

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

The question of primary importance presented by this appeal is whether or not the venire of jurors drawn and summoned for the week in which this case was tried in the court below should have been quashed on appellant’s motion.

The facts on which the motion to quash the venire are based, are set forth in ex-tenso in our opinion in Cook v. State, Ala. App., 21 So.2d 446. Briefly stated, the motion is predicated upon the fact the venire was drawn from a box that contained only the names of citizens who resided in that portion of Russell County that formerly composed the…