Commonwealth v. Pritchett
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 10-INDICTMENT APPEAL PROM HARDIN CIRCUIT COURT. CITED . Common School Law, art. 7, sec. 1. Sergeant’s Const. Law, 376. Constitution of Kentucky, art. 2, see. 8. General Statutes, p. 223, chap. 13, art. 7, sec. 1. Blackstone’s App. 57, 58. Rawle, Const. 213. CITED General Statutes, chap. 62, art. 1, sec. 1. Criminal Code, secs. 105, 349, 276, 331, 345, 349.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Peters
Appellee was indicted in the Iiardin Circuit Court at its August term, 1874, in two cases, for infraction of the penal laws of the state. He was arrested by the sheriff of said county in September, 1874, under bench warrants, and, having failed to put in bail as fixed by the court, he was delivered over to the jailer of the county.
At the August term, 1875, of the Hardin Circuit Court, on motion of appellee the indictments were set aside on the ground that James M. Lee, the foreman of the grand jury that found the indictments against him, was the trustee of a common-school district in said…
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