Waldrop v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Anniston City Court. Heard before Hon. Thomas W. Coleman, Jr. Alexander Waldrop was convicted of killing his wife and given the death penalty, and he appeals. The minutes of the court show the following: Comes the state by its solicitor, and defendant in his own proper person and by attorney, and said defendant being duly arraigned upon said indictment, for his plea thereto says not guilty.
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Appeal from Anniston City Court. Heard before Hon. Thomas W. Coleman, Jr. Alexander Waldrop was convicted of killing his wife and given the death penalty, and he appeals. The minutes of the court show the following: Comes the state by its solicitor, and defendant in his own proper person and by attorney, and said defendant being duly arraigned upon said indictment, for his plea thereto says not guilty. It is therefore ordered by the court that Monday the 28th day of October, 1912, be and the same is hereby fixed as the day for the trial of this case. And thereupon in open court the court drew…
1Opinion of the CourtSomerville, J.
It has been several times ruled by this court that section 32 of the New Jury Law (Sess. Acts 1909, p. 319) is mandatory in its requirement that, in capital cases, the tidal court shall fix the number of the special venire, and that the defendant shall have the benefit of the number so fixed for the selection of his trial jury. — Jackson v. State, 171 Ala. 38, 55 South. 118; Bailey v. State, 172 Ala. 418, 55 South. 601; Andrews v. State, 174 Ala. 11, 56 South. 998.
It is insisted for appellant (1) that the record fails to show that any order was made fixing the number of the venire, and (2)…
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