State v. Duggan

The defendant pleads three pleas in abatement to the indictment. The first plea is, “ because one of the grand jurors who participated in the delib erations of the grand jury which has found said indictment, and who was drawn by the town council of the town of New Shoreham to serve on said grand jury, to wit, Benjamin S. Babcock, was not, at the time he was drawn as aforesaid, qualified to vote upon any proposition to impose a tax or for the expenditure of money in said New Shoreham.” The second plea, pleaded by express leave, is to the same effect, except that it applies to Isaac A. Hart,…