O'Byrnes v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From the City Court of Eufaula. Tried before the Hon. E. M. Keels. The prisoner in this case was indicted for resisting a constable in the execution of legal process.
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From the City Court of Eufaula. Tried before the Hon. E. M. Keels. The prisoner in this case was indicted for resisting a constable in the execution of legal process. The indictment was found at the regular December term of the court, 1873. In describing the organization of the grand jury at that term, the record contains the following recitals: “ The sheriff brought into court the venire of the grand jury heretofore issued by the clerk, commanding him to summon the persons therein named to serve as grand jurors for the present term of the court. His honor the presiding judge called on the…
1Opinion of the CourtBrickell, J.
Under our statutes, it was made the duty of the sheriff of each county to obtain biennially a list of the householders and freeholders residing in his county, from which list must be selected the names of such persons as may be thought competent to discharge the duties of grand and petit jurors for the county. R. C. § 4062. The sheriff, judge of probate, and clerk of the circuit court, or any two of them, must meet, biennially, on the first Monday in May, or within thirty days thereafter, at the office of the clerk of the circuit or city court, and select from said list the names of such…
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