Edwards v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From the City Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. C. F. Moulton. The indictment in this case, which was found at the February Term, 1873, of said City Court, contained two counts. The first count charged that the defendant, with intent to defraud, “ did falsely pretend to Thomas P. Miller, of the firm of Thomas P. Miller & Co. (composed of Thomas P. Miller, Rudolphus D. Williams, James C. Reynolds, and Jno.
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From the City Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. C. F. Moulton. The indictment in this case, which was found at the February Term, 1873, of said City Court, contained two counts. The first count charged that the defendant, with intent to defraud, “ did falsely pretend to Thomas P. Miller, of the firm of Thomas P. Miller & Co. (composed of Thomas P. Miller, Rudolphus D. Williams, James C. Reynolds, and Jno. W. Miller) that he had at his credit, in the Citizens’ Bank of Louisiana, at New Orleans, in the State of Louisiana, the sum of twenty-six hundred dollars in gold coin, and, by means of…
1Opinion of the CourtBbickell, J.
— 1. At common law, and by constitutional and statutory provision, all crimes are local. The grand jury inquiring and making presentment of them, and the jury finally trying, must come from the vicinage, — by which is intended the county of their commission. Yet, at common law, the necessity and right of removal of the final trial, when a fair investigation could not be had and an impartial judgment obtained in the county in which it is alleged the offence was committed, was fully recognized. It is said the allowance of such removal was part of the inherent common law jurisdiction of the…
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