Curry v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the City Court of Talladega. Tried before the Hon. G. K. Miller. The indictment under which the defendant was tried contained two counts. The first count chai’ged the defendant with an assault with intent to murder one Frank Noble. The second count charged the defendant with assault with intent to murder Effie McKibbon.
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Appeal from the City Court of Talladega. Tried before the Hon. G. K. Miller. The indictment under which the defendant was tried contained two counts. The first count chai’ged the defendant with an assault with intent to murder one Frank Noble. The second count charged the defendant with assault with intent to murder Effie McKibbon. When the cause was called for trial, the defendant moved the court to quash the panel of the petit jury summoned for the trial of the cases in court that week, upon the grounds, 1st, that such jury was not drawn according to law; 2d, that such jury was selected and…
1Opinion of the CourtMcOLELLAN, C. J.
The special statute establishing the city court of Talladega, etc., etc., as amended in 1895, provides that petit jurors for said court shall be drawn in the same manner as was or might .thereafter be provided for. the drawing of such jurors for the circuit court of Talladega county.—Acts, 1894-95, p. 1221. The drawing of such jurors of said-circuit court is provided for by the Code. The petit jury which tried this case was drawn in consonance with section 4998 of the Code for a week of the city court, for which no jury had been drawn by the jury commissioners; and the motion to quash the…
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