State v. Bass

Appellees were indicted for various violations of the Election Law. To the indictments all appellees filed answers in abatement, specifying eight reasons why the grand jury which returned the indictments was illegally drawn. To these answers the state demurred. The demurrers were sustained as to specifications , 2, 4, 5, and 6 of the answers, and overruled as to specifications 3, 7, and 8.

Error is assigned upon the overruling of the demurrers, and upon the ground that “the court erred in rendering a judgment of acquittal of the appellees herein on their pleas in abatement.”

Specification 3…