People v. Long
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the County Court of Plumas County. The defendant was arrested on a charge of burglary, September 28th, 1871, and committed to jail to await examination. The Court convened November 6th, 1871, when the Judge made an order directing that a Grand Jury be summoned to be in attendance on the sixteenth of that month.
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Appeal from the County Court of Plumas County. The defendant was arrested on a charge of burglary, September 28th, 1871, and committed to jail to await examination. The Court convened November 6th, 1871, when the Judge made an order directing that a Grand Jury be summoned to be in attendance on the sixteenth of that month. When the Court convened on the latter date, the defendant, being present with his counsel, objected to the panel, on the grounds that the case was -not one that would authorize the calling of a special Grand Jury, as having arisen since the commencement or immediately…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Wallace, C. J.:
I. The challenge of the prisoner interposed to the panel of the Grand Jury was properly denied. By section twelve of the Act of 1868-4 (p. 526) it is provided, that if, after the commencement of the session of the Court, it shall appear proper to the Judge that a Grand Jury be summoned, he shall cause an order to that effect to be entered on the minutes of the Court. This was done; and in impaneling the Grand Jury so directed to be summoned, sections nine, ten, and eleven appear to have been observed.
2. The next error assigned is the overruling of the demurrer to…
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