Green v. State

The plaintiff in error having been indicted, and convicted of forgery, by the verdict of a jury, in the Circuit Court for Queen Anne’s County, moved in arrest of judgment, because a member of the grand jury indicting him, and one of the petit jury which tried and convicted him, were over the age of seventy years. The Court overruled the motion, and the case was brought to this Court on a writ of error. The same reasons are assigned here, and relied on, as ground of error.

The question presented is, does our statute, on the subject, render persons over seventy years incompetent to serve as…