Shell v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from St. Clair Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. John W. Inzer. Make Shell was convicted of violating the local option law, and he appeals.
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Appeal from St. Clair Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. John W. Inzer. Make Shell was convicted of violating the local option law, and he appeals. The defendant entered a motion to quash the indictment on the ground that the jury commissioners, in making up the jury box for St. Clair county to be held in the courthouse at Ashville, ascertained and put into such jury box the names of all the men or persons qualified and competent to serve as jurors in said county, from which said jury box jurors are to be drawn and impaneled to serve as grand and petit jurors in such county, but that the jury…
1Opinion of the Court
de GRAFFENRIED, J.
The act approved February 23, 1907, entitled “An act to provide for holding the circuit court in St. Clair county, Alabama, to divide said county into two judicial divisions, to regulate the said court and the jurisdiction of and the proceedings in and relating to the same” (Loc. Laws 1907, p. 61), divides the county of St. Clair into, two judicial divisions, directs the holding of terms of court, not only at Ashville, the county seat, but also at Pell City, and provides that all civil actions which arise in, or where there is a single defendant who resides in, that portion…
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