State v. Glascow

Ritchie, J.,

delivered, the opinion of the Court.

An indictment for barn-burning was found against the defendant in error, in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, at the December Term, 1881, to which the prisoner pleaded, in abatement, such alleged non-compliance with those provisions of the Act of 1870, chap. 220, which prescribe the mode of drawing the jury in that county, as. rendered the grand jury illegal, and the indictment, consequently void. That statute, as to Baltimore County, directs that the two hundred names of qualified citizens from which the forty-eight are to he taken who…