State v. . Dalton

Upon bis arraignment tbe prisoner moved to quash the indictment on the ground of illegality in the organization of the grand jury, and excepted to the court’s denial of his motion.

By an act ratified on 18 March, 1931, section 2334 of the Consolidated Statutes was made applicable to Henderson County. Public Laws, 1931, chap. 131. It was thereby provided that at the first fall and spring-terms of the criminal courts grand juries should be drawn to serve respectively during the remaining fall and spring terms — that is, for a term of six months. A panel was to be drawn from the jury box at least…