Evans v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Marshall County; W. W. Haralson, Judge. Henry Evans was convicted of murder, and appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
SOMERVILLE;, J.
[1] The effect of the act approved August 18, 1909 (Sp. Sess. Acts 1909, p. 16) was to divide Marshall county into two separate and distinct circuit court districts, the division sitting at Albertville having exclusive jurisdiction within its specified territory, and the division sitting at Guntersville having exclusive jurisdiction within the remainder of the county. No other purpose can be imputed to the act. By its express terms the act required that the petit jurors for the Albertville division should be drawn from the regular jury boxes for the whole county, and by…
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