Gladden v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Writ of Error to Circuit Court for Jackson county. Tlio plaintiff in error was indicted for the murder of Addison Fullerton. On the morning of the day of the homicide, the prisoner and deceased mot casually at a house called the “Tidwell Place.” A difficulty occurred there between tho parties. Eliza Jane Tidwell (for the defense) testified in reference to this antecedent difficulty: “ That the parties met at the Tidwell Place.
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Writ of Error to Circuit Court for Jackson county. Tlio plaintiff in error was indicted for the murder of Addison Fullerton. On the morning of the day of the homicide, the prisoner and deceased mot casually at a house called the “Tidwell Place.” A difficulty occurred there between tho parties. Eliza Jane Tidwell (for the defense) testified in reference to this antecedent difficulty: “ That the parties met at the Tidwell Place. That Mr. Gladden said: ‘Addison, I suppose you aro going to sell me out..’ Mr. Fullerton replied: ‘ Attend to your business and I will attend to'mine. It ain’t mo going…
1Opinion of the Court
"WESTCOTT, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
Silas Gladden, the plaintiff in error, was indicted for the murder of Addison Fullerton at the spring term, 1868, of the circuit court for Jackson county.
As the case is decided for the most part upon purely legal grounds, we deem any lengthy statement of the facts unnecessary.
From a careful inspection of the first page of the record we find that only fourteen persons “ were drawn to serve as grand jurors during the term ” at which the indictment was found. The statutes regulating the organization of grand juries cannot, by any known rule of…
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