Hill v. State

Michael Robert Hill was convicted of burglary in the first degree and of intimidating a witness in CC-90-120. He was also convicted of two counts of the unlawful sale of cocaine in CC-90-97. The record on this appeal from those convictions does not indicate that the jury was placed under oath.

On the appeal of a criminal conviction resulting from a trial by jury, the record must show that the jury was sworn as required by law. Hines v. State, 238 Ala. 575, 576,192 So. 423, 424 (1939). See cases cited in the annotations following Ala. Code 1975, § 12-16-170 and § 12-16-173.

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