Williams v. State

Hall, Justice.

[Enoch Williams was indicted; one count in the indictment was for assault with intent to murder, and another *181for pointing a pistol at another. Defendant moved to quash the indictment, as containing a. misjoinder of counts. The motion was overruled. Defendant filed a plea in abatement, on the ground that four of the grand jurors who found the indictment were not qualified at that time to act. It was agreed that, at the time the grand jurors were drawn, they were qualified, but that a revision of the jury-box had been had and their names omitted before the indictment was found.…