Richerson v. State

SAMFORD, Judge.

The defendant seasonably filed a number -of pleas in abatement, the substance of which is embraced in plea 2 as follows:

“Comes the defendant and for further plea in abatement says, that the State ought not to prosecute this indictment against him, but that the same should be abated and held for naught, because the Grand Jury that returned the said indictment against him was not drawn and impaneled .as required by law. That prior to the 6th day of September, 1932, the Judge of the Circuit Court of Baldwin County, Alabama, drew from the jury box of said County the necessary…