State v. Shelton
Supreme Court of Alabama
In this case, the attorney general moved for a certiorari to bri-'.g up a transcript of the venire, and the entry cf the Court of Dallas county, shewing that the jury were summoned, and that the grand jury who found the indict-mcnt. were regularly drawn. ' 0
1Opinion of the Court
By JUDGE COLLIER.
This case comes before us on questions referred. By the fifth section of tire act of December, 1S20, entitled ,£an act concerning writs of error,” the Circuit Courts are authorized to refer to this Court, novel and difficult questions of law, arising in criminal cases. It is conceived that a correct practice in such cases, will not permit the defendant to assign errors in the record, but that he must be confined to the questions which were reserved for the opinion of this Court. This case has not reached this Court at the instance of the defendant, but was sent here for the…
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