Legal Opinion

Kenny v. . the People

New York Court of Appeals

Decided March 5, 1865PublishedCited by 11 opinions

Weit of error to the General Term of the Supreme Court of the second district. The plaintiff in error was convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree at a court of Oyer and Terminer held for the county of Kings in July, 1863. The record was brought to the General Term of the Supreme Court by writ of error. The judgment was affirmed at the General Term, from which it is brought by writ of error to this court.

1Opinion of the Court

The first question raised in the case in behalf of the plaintiff in error is a challenge to the array of jurors. After the regular panel of petit jurors, duly drawn and summoned to attend the said court, had been exhausted, the said court ordered a new panel of petit jurors to be drawn by the commissioner of jurors for the county of Kings, and to be forthwith summoned by him, by a notice of at least one day, to attend the said court on the first day of July, 1863, on which last mentioned day the said commissioner of jurors returned a panel of petit jurors, drawn in pursuance of the said…

2Cited by11 opinions

  1. Tucker v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
  2. People v. BlakeCalifornia Supreme Court · 1884
  3. People v. GerdvineNew York Court of Appeals · 1914
  4. O'Brien v. . the PeopleNew York Court of Appeals · 1867
  5. People v. OdellSupreme Court Of The Territory Of Dakota · 1875

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