Maxwell v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From the Criminal Court of Jefferson. Tried before the Hon. S. E. Greene. The defendant in this case, John T. Maxwell, was indicted for the murder of John B. Rickies, by shooting him with a gun or pistol; pleaded not guilty, and a special plea of “not guilty by reason of insanity”; was convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
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From the Criminal Court of Jefferson. Tried before the Hon. S. E. Greene. The defendant in this case, John T. Maxwell, was indicted for the murder of John B. Rickies, by shooting him with a gun or pistol; pleaded not guilty, and a special plea of “not guilty by reason of insanity”; was convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. The indictment was found on the 8th October, 1887. The cause was continued from term to term, until October 5th, 1889, when, as the minute-entry recites, “the defendant being present in person and by attorney,” it was ordered…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
The act of February 28, 1887, “to more effectually secure competent and well qualified jurors *156in the several counties in this State,” undertook to establish a general jury system throughout the State, and was made to apply to all the counties of the State, with a proviso excepting from its operation certain named counties, among which were Clay and Marengo. Jefferson was not one of the excepted counties. The seventeenth section of the act is in the following language: “Be it further enacted, That section 4732 of the Code of Alabama, and all other laws and parts of laws, general and special,…
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