Legal Opinion

Nash v. Smith

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided December 3, 1923No. 23469PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.

This is an appeal from a conviction for the sale of intoxicating liquor. The court oVerruled a motion hy the appellant to quash the indictment, for the reasons that— „“The body returning the same was not and is not a duly organized or impaneled grand jury as provided by law,in that the regular legal and proper jury box- of Lauder-dale county, Miss., existing on the first Monday of February, 1923, as well as the names legally drawn therefrom to constitute the grand jury for this court, was illegally quashed, and the grand jury or supposed grand jury was illegally drawn by the sheriff of…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Westbrooks v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1899
  2. Quick v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1923
  3. Peebles v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1913

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Jones v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1952
  2. McDaniel v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1941

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