Commonwealth v. Eagan
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 398, Jan. T., 1898, by defendant, from judgmentof 0. &. T. Susquehanna Co., April T., 1898, No. 1, on verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree. Indictment for murder.
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Appeal, No. 398, Jan. T., 1898, by defendant, from judgmentof 0. &. T. Susquehanna Co., April T., 1898, No. 1, on verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree. Indictment for murder. At the trial before Searle, P. J., a motion to quash the array of grand jurors was made for the following reasons : 1. The grand jurors that found the indictment were not a lawful body, nor were they selected and drawn from the jury wheel according to law. 2. The jury wheel was not kept in the custody of the jury commissioners. 3. The jury wheel was not locked and sealed after it was filled, as provided by…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Mitchell,
That appellant was justly convicted does not admit of question. There is no room for doubt of his guilt or of its degree. But counsel, with excess of zeal not commendable, has raised many questions on the regularity of the proceedings, most of them merely technical and immaterial, and all of them untenable.
The first and second assignments, to the refusal to quash the array of grand jurors and the indictment, and the third, to the refusal to order the commonwealth to furnish a bill of particulars, are sufficiently answered by the learned judge below in making the…
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