Chamblee v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From the City Court of Birmingham. Tried before the lion. II. A. Sharpe. The defendant in this case, LaFayette Cliamblee, was indicted for the murder of Marcus Chamblee, by shooting him with a gun or pistol; was tried on issue joined on the plea of not guilty, convicted of murder in the second degree,, and sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of thirteen years.
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From the City Court of Birmingham. Tried before the lion. II. A. Sharpe. The defendant in this case, LaFayette Cliamblee, was indicted for the murder of Marcus Chamblee, by shooting him with a gun or pistol; was tried on issue joined on the plea of not guilty, convicted of murder in the second degree,, and sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of thirteen years. There was no objection on the trial, so far as the record shows, either to the grand jury by whom the indictment was found,' or to the special venire from which the petit jury was selected. On the trial, as the bill of exceptions…
1Opinion of the CourtClopton, J.
When this case was first submitted, the record did not disclose that any day was set, or special jurors were drawn, for the trial of the defendant. The record has been since corrected, and now shows that a day was set for his trial, and jurors were drawn. Two capital cases were set for the same day, and jurors were drawn at the same time, for the trial, of both cases. Construing the statute regulating the drawing and impanneling of jurors in Dallas county (Acts 1884-85, *468p. 492), we held in Evans v. State, at the present term, that it was irregular to draw at the same time special jurors for…
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