Commonwealth v. Garletts

Opinion by

Porter, J.,

The defendant, a justice of the peace, was convicted in. the court below upon an indictment charging extortion. The only ruling of the court below, upon the trial, assigned for error, is the refusal to quash the indictment. The principal reason urged in the motion to quash was that: “The grand jury which found and returned the said indictment to the court was not a legal grand jury, in that it was drawn from a wheel which contained only the names of male electors of Fayette County, and from which all female electors of said county were excluded.”

The defendant, in support…