Crawford v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Jury and jurors. Indictment. Abatement. Practice. Before Judge Adamson. City court of Carrollton. May term, 1888. Henry Crawford was tried on a special presentment, charging him with having sold liquors without license.
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Jury and jurors. Indictment. Abatement. Practice. Before Judge Adamson. City court of Carrollton. May term, 1888. Henry Crawford was tried on a special presentment, charging him with having sold liquors without license. He filed a plea in abatement, alleging that the name of Eliho E. Entrekin, one of the grand jurors who found the bill against him, was not in the jury-box, nor was the name of Elihu E. Entrekin in said box, and that no list of jurors or any kind of list was prepared and signed by the commissioners as required by law. Acts of 1879. This plea was traversed. Upon the trial of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
The misnomer of the grand juror was abandoned in the argument. The sole question that remains is, whether the jury-book, as made up, was so defective as to render the grand jury illegal. Two irregularities are alleged: (1) that the clerk himself did not write the names, but called them out and some other person wrote them down; and (2) that the book was certified and signed by the commissioners before the names were inserted therein. We think these were mere irregularities, and only show that ministerial duties directed by the statute were not correctly performed.…
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