Legal Opinion
United States v. Lewis
District Court, E.D. Missouri
Decided December 8, 1911No. Nos. 5,591, 5,623PublishedCited by 9 opinions
Prosecutions against Edward G. Lewis and against H. B. Gardner and others. On plea in abatement to the indictments.
1Opinion of the Court
TRIEBER, District Judge.
The defendants filed a plea in abatement to quash the indictments in these cases upon the following grounds:
“(1) The order for the selection and drawing of the said grand jurors for the May term, A. D. 1911, was illegal, first, because it required the clerk and jury commissioner of this court to draw the names of thirty-six (36) persons from the division of the district, a number in excess of the maximum number authorized and required by law for a grand jury; and-, second, because said order provided that a venire be issued commanding the marshal of the United States…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Church of the Holy Trinity v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Hopt v. People of Territory of UtahSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- Carter v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1900
- United States v. Union Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
- United States v. GaleSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
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3Cited by9 opinions
- In re DeansDistrict Court, W.D. Arkansas · 1913
- Andrews v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1915
- Dunn v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1917
- Thiel v. Southern Pac. Co.District Court, N.D. California · 1946
- Brown v. BernsteinDistrict Court, M.D. Pennsylvania · 1943
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