State v. Champeau
Supreme Court of Vermont
Indictment for keeping a house of ill-fame, brought at the September Term, 1879. The respondent pleaded that the names of three of the persons who acted as the grand jury by which the indictment was found, residents of the city of Burlington, and summoned as such, were not drawn out of the box containing the names of the persons nominated, but were drawn by the sheriff “ by selecting from a package of numbered cards presented to him by the city clerk of said city three…
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Indictment for keeping a house of ill-fame, brought at the September Term, 1879. The respondent pleaded that the names of three of the persons who acted as the grand jury by which the indictment was found, residents of the city of Burlington, and summoned as such, were not drawn out of the box containing the names of the persons nominated, but were drawn by the sheriff “ by selecting from a package of numbered cards presented to him by the city clerk of said city three certain numbers seen by said sheriff at the time of said drawing, which numbers so drawn corresponded with the numbers set…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Veazey, J.
The method of-drawing the three jurors named in the plea was not strictly according to the statute. It seems to have been an attempted improvement on the statutory method. The officers engaged in it will serve the public better by adhering to the statutes in the discharge of this public duty, than by deviations therefi’om with a view to improvements, or with any other view. But it appears that the persons drawn in this case were among *317those regularly chosen, and it does not appear but that the drawing was fair, or that the persons drawn were…
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