Commonwealth v. Best
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment for the murder of one George E. Bailey, returned January 25, 1901. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Sherman and Fox, JJ., the jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree; and the defendant alleged exceptions, which are stated by the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, C. J.
This is an indictment for murder upon which the defendant has been found guilty of murder in the first degree. The case is here on exceptions. The first exception is to the overruling of a motion to quash the panel because the clerk in issuing the venires did not “ require from each town and city a number of jurors as nearly as may be in proportion to their respective number of inhabitants,” as required by Pub. Sts. c. 170, §11. Commonwealth v. Walsh, 124 Mass. 32, 37. The object of this enactment is not to benefit the prisoner, but is expressly stated to be to “ equalize as far as possible…
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