United States v. Breeding
District Court, W.D. Virginia
Alfred Breeding was indicted for carrying on the business of a retail liquor dealer without having paid the special tax in due time. On motion to quash the indictment.
1Opinion of the Court
McDOWELL, District Judge.
The defendant, who was indicted at the August, 1913, term of the court at Big Stone Gap for carrying on the business of a retail dealer in malt liquors without having paid the special tax, in due time moved to quash the indictment because more than 23 veniremen for grand jury service had been summoned to attend the court. This motion was overruled and an exception noted.
The first order for juries for the said term directed the clerk and jury commissioner, inter alia, to draw from the box for the Big Stone Gap division of the district the names of SO veniremen for…
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