Boles v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Madison Circuit Court. Fdward S. McDaniel, Judge. Bee Boles was convicted of robbery in the Madison circuit court on change of venue from Carroll county.
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Appeal from Madison Circuit Court. Fdward S. McDaniel, Judge. Bee Boles was convicted of robbery in the Madison circuit court on change of venue from Carroll county. The indictment charges that “the said Lee Boles and Bone Terry, in the said county of Carroll in the eastern district thereof, in the State of Arkansas, on the 10th day of July, 1892, unlawfully, forcibly, violently and by putting in fear, did take, from the person and possession of one R. A. Martin, one United States treasury note, lawful money of the United States of America, of the denomination and value of $5; one paper bill,…
1Opinion of the CourtMansfield, J.
i. Before pleading- to the indictment on which he was convicted, the defendant moved to set it aside on the ground that there was “a substantial error in the formation of the grand jury” by which it was found. Mansf. Dig. sec. 2157.
In support of this motion he read in evidence a record entry, made at the term at which the indictment was found, showing- the lists of grand and alternate grand jurors returned by the jury commissioners. Rrom this it appeared that the name “Swafford John” was found upon the alternate list, and that the name “John Swafford ” was not found upon either of the lists.…
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