Legal Opinion
State v. Davies
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided January 8, 1959PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDaly, C. J.
The defendant has appealed, after a trial to a jury, from his conviction on a charge of murder in the first degree. He assigns error in the sustaining of a demurrer to his plea in abatement and in the charge to the jury.
The defendant filed a plea in abatement alleging that the indictment accusing him of murder in the first degree was found by a grand jury; that seven of the eighteen grand jurors constituting the grand jury were attorneys at law duly qualified and admitted to the practice of law in this state and as such were also officers of the Superior Court; that article first, § 9, of the…
2Cases cited22 opinions
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- Thiel v. Southern Pacific Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Ballard v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Durham v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1954
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3Cited by25 opinions
- United States v. Charles FreemanCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1966
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- State v. CobbsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1973
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