Legal Opinion

Montgomery v. State

Supreme Court of Kansas

Decided February 15, 1865PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Criminal Appeal from Douglas County. The record of tlie court below shows the following orders (referred to in the opinion,) relative to the organization of the grand jury: “The panel of the grand jurors being called the following named persons answered to their names, to-wit: William Draper, R. F. Barber, John E. Campbell, John Morehead, Ira Jennings, Levi Woodward, R. S. Johnson.

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Criminal Appeal from Douglas County. The record of tlie court below shows the following orders (referred to in the opinion,) relative to the organization of the grand jury: “The panel of the grand jurors being called the following named persons answered to their names, to-wit: William Draper, R. F. Barber, John E. Campbell, John Morehead, Ira Jennings, Levi Woodward, R. S. Johnson. “ Tho panel of the grand jury being incomplete, it is ordered by'the court that the following named persons be and they are hereby transferred from the petit'jury to tho grand jury, to-wit: G. W. Cosley, W.…

1Opinion of the Court

By the Court,

Safford, J.

The record in this case beginning with the steps taken to constitute the grand jury by which the bill of indictment herein was found* previous to and at the November term of the District Court of Douglas county, 1861, exhibits the following facts:

That a grand jury was ordered for that term in accordance with the provision of section 7, chap. 61, Laws 1861, That a venire was duly issued for the number of grand jurors required by law, and whose names had been ascertained in accordance with the provisions of chapter 119, Comp. Laws, 1862. That the venire was received,…

2Cited by6 opinions

  1. State v. JacksonSupreme Court of Kansas · 1882
  2. Watson v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1891
  3. State v. Superior Court of Pima CountyArizona Supreme Court · 1967
  4. Perez v. Territory of ArizonaArizona Supreme Court · 1912
  5. Hoyt v. Territory of ArizonaArizona Supreme Court · 1912

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