Pope v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Murder. Appeal from Chilton Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. W. W. Pearson. Hattie I. Pope was convicted of murder and she appeals. —The indictment should have been quashed and the demurrers sustained as it was returned by a grand jury summoned to appear at a regular term at a date not fixed by law and was not a grand jury summons for a special term.' — Section 7257, 7269, 7259, 7572-4; Levy v. The State, 48 Ala. 171. Section 8248, Code 1.907, has no application to this…
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Murder. Appeal from Chilton Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. W. W. Pearson. Hattie I. Pope was convicted of murder and she appeals. —The indictment should have been quashed and the demurrers sustained as it was returned by a grand jury summoned to appear at a regular term at a date not fixed by law and was not a grand jury summons for a special term.' — Section 7257, 7269, 7259, 7572-4; Levy v. The State, 48 Ala. 171. Section 8248, Code 1.907, has no application to this case. — Cochran v. The State, 89 Ala. 40; Tucker v. The State, 152 Ala. 1; O’Byrnes v. The State, 51 Ala. 25; Fryer v. The…
1Opinion of the CourtMcOLELLAN, J.
— By an act purporting to be approved November 23, 1907( Acts Sp. Sess. 1907, p. 24), the time for holding the circuit court in Chilton county, after the year 1907, was undertaken to be fixed therein. The bill (H. R. 26) originated in the House of Representatives, and, being there passed, was sent over to the Senate. That body regularly referred the bill to its standing committee, on revision of laws. — Sen. Jour. (Printed )Sp. Sess. 1907, p. 111. On a subsequent day the bill was reported to the Senate from the standing committee on finance and taxation. — Sen. Jour. (Printed) Sp. Sess. 1907,…
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