Baker v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Madison. Tried before the Hon. H. C. Speake. The appellant in this case Avas indicted and tried for the murder of Joe McCloud, was convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Madison. Tried before the Hon. H. C. Speake. The appellant in this case Avas indicted and tried for the murder of Joe McCloud, was convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. The defendant was arraigned on February 22, 1899, which was the third week of the circuit court of Madison county, and the 27th of February, 1899, which Avas Monday of the fourth week Avas set for the trial of the cause; and 40 names Avere drawn from the jury bos, which, together with the panel of the petit jurors drawn and summoned for the fourth…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, C. J.
— The act of February 28th, 1887, “to more effectually secure competent and Avell qualified jurors in the several counties of this State,” Avitli a pro-A'ision excepting from its operation certain named counties, (Acts 1886-7, pp. 1.51 et seq. Or. Code, 1886, p. 132) was a general and not a local or special laAV: it applied in general terms to the State excepting certain counties, and not to certain counties designated by name to the exclusion of the State generally; and it Avas not Avitliin the saving clause of section 10 of the Code of 1896, but Avas a public laAV of a general and permanent…
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