Nealon v. People

Plaintiffs in error were indicted, tried and convicted for selling intoxicating liquor to minors. They bring the record to this court and assign numerous errors.

It appears that upon the convening of court but’seventeen grand jurors answered, whereupon the court ordered the sheriff to summon from the body of the county six persons having the qualifications of grand jurors. That the sheriff summoned six persons from the bystanders, four of whom resided in the township of Decatur, and these six, with the seventeen originally summoned, constituted the grand jury that found the indictment upon…