State v. Middleton
Supreme Court of Alabama
At the September term, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, of the Circuit Court of Tuskaloosa county — John Thomas, foreman, James Pinion, N. W. Ware, Wiley Watson, Curtis Ivy, James M’Creight, Dennis Springer, Jesse Hughes, Thomas M’Crackin, John Poe, sen., David Baugh, Thomas B. S. M’Ge-hee, John Terrell, and William L, Reese, good and lawful men of said County, impanneled, sworn and charged to inquire for the body of Tuskaloosa county, within the State of Alabama, exhibited…
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At the September term, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, of the Circuit Court of Tuskaloosa county — John Thomas, foreman, James Pinion, N. W. Ware, Wiley Watson, Curtis Ivy, James M’Creight, Dennis Springer, Jesse Hughes, Thomas M’Crackin, John Poe, sen., David Baugh, Thomas B. S. M’Ge-hee, John Terrell, and William L, Reese, good and lawful men of said County, impanneled, sworn and charged to inquire for the body of Tuskaloosa county, within the State of Alabama, exhibited a bill of indictment against the defendant, in the following words and figures, to wit: “The State of Alabama. Circuit…
1Opinion of the CourtCollier, C. J.
The defendant was indicted in the Circuit Court of Tuscaloosa, for an assault and battery, and being brought into Court, he pleaded in proper person, that one of the grand jurors, (naming him,) by whom the indictment was found, “was not, at the time the grand jury were impanneled, nor at the time the indictment was, found, a freeholder, nor was he a house-holder within the county of Tuscaloosa.” The plea concluded with a verification, prayed judgment of the indictment, and that the. same be quashed; and is verified as follows:
The Attorney General demurred to the defendants plea, and the…
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