Sledge v. State

By plea in abatement and by motion to quash defendant drew into question the indictment, alleging as ground for this alternative attack that a cousin of deceased sat upon the grand jury by which the indictment was found. It seems to be the-rule of the courts generally that, in the absence of statutory prohibition, the relationship of a grand juror with the party injured is not a good ground of objection to the indictment. State v. Russell (Iowa) 28 L. R. A. note 5, p. 202; 20 Cyc. 1302; Collins v. State, 3 Ala. App. 64, 58 South. 80. Moreover, objections of this character, if good in any…