Dotson v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Limestone Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. James E. Cobb. The appellant, Silas Dotson, was tried and convicted of bigamy.
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Appeal from Limestone Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. James E. Cobb. The appellant, Silas Dotson, was tried and convicted of bigamy. Before the trial in the court below commenced, the appellant “ challenged the array of jurors, and moved the court to quash the venire sitting for his trial, on the ground that the judge of probate, clerk of the circuit court, and sheriff of Limestone county, drew the grand and petit jurors at the same time, and as the names of the jurors were taken from the box, placed them alternately on the grand or petit juries according to their respective localities and…
1Opinion of the CourtBrickell, C. J.
It is the duty of the judge of probate, sheriff, and clerk of the circuit or city court, at least twenty *143days before tbe bolding of each regular term of tbe circuit or city court of tbe county, or a majority of them, to draw from tbe box containing tbe names of the jurors, tbe names of eighteen persons to serve as grand jurors, and of thirty persons to serve as petit jurors, eacb week of tbe term. — Code of 1876, §§ 4738-9. Specific directions as to tbe manner of drawing the jurors are prescribed, and of these is: “ One of them must publicly draw out of the box, in the presence of tbe others,…
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