Stapleton v. Pinckney

As taxpayer of Albany County, plaintiffs maintain this action to restrain the defendant Commissioner of Jurors from carrying out the provisions of chapter 206 of the Laws of 1944. The Attorney-General has intervened and has been added as a defendant. The statute enacts numerous provisions affecting the office of commissioner of jurors and makes provisions with reference to the preparation of trial and grand jury lists, and to eligibility of jurors. Plaintiffs say that the statute is a local bill for the selecting, drawing and summoning of jurors prohibited by section 17 of article I'll of the…