Long v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Pickens. Tried before the Hon S. H. Sprott. The appellant, Robert Long, was indicted, tried and convicted for selling spirituous, vinous or malt liquors without a license and contrary to law. The only questions , which are presented on this appeal and considered by the court, are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
The motion to quash the indictment against the defendant below — appellant here — was properly overruled. It proceeded on the idea that there had been vitiating irregularity in drawing the grand jury which found and returned the indictment; and this, it is satisfactorily shown, consisted alone in the fact, that the key of the jury box being lost, the jury commissioners broke the seals and pried the box open and then proceeded to draw this grand jury and other juries in the manner prescribed by law. The objection to the validity of their action is really too untenable for discussion.
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- Prestwood v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1889
- Love v. PorterSupreme Court of Alabama · 1890
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