Breeding v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Colorado. The appellant, having been indicted for playing at cards, pleaded in abatement, that one of the grand jurors, who found the indictment, was above the age of sixty years. The plea was adjudged by the Court insufficient, on demurrer. The defendant was convicted and appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
Jurors are subject to objection, either on account of their want of the requisite qualifications of fitness, whereby they are excluded from serving; or on account of some privilege or exemption, whereby their service is excused, but not excluded. Aliens, and persons convicted of some *258crime which affects their credit and renders them infamous, are of the former class. Infants under twenty-one and aged and infirm persons and those specially exempted from service by statute, are of the latter class. Objections which go to the fitness of the jurors to serve, may be urged by the party to be…
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