State v. Grimes
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant, William Daniel Grimes, from a judgment of the District Court of Cottonwood County, P. E. Brown, J., entered July 1, 1891, adjudging him guilty of arson in the second degree, and that he be imprisoned therefor ten years at Stillwater at hard labor.
1Opinion of the CourtDicKinson, J.
For a general term of the district court held in Cottonwood county in June, 1891, fifteen persons only (instead of twenty-three) were drawn and summoned to serve as grand jurors. They all appeared at the opening of the court, and the court then by a special venire caused eight other persons to be summoned to serve as grand jurors. All the persons so summoned (twenty-three) were then sworn as a grand jury. The defendant, who, upon a preliminary examination before a magistrate, had been required to appear at that term of the court to answer to any indictment which might be found against him,…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- State v. FroisethSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1871
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