Montgomery v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided by Division A. Writ of Error to the Criminal Court of Record for Duval County. Statement. An information was filed in the criminal court of record for Duval county, Florida, charging the plaintiff in error with embezzlement of money held by him as Treasurer of a Lodge of Knights of Pythias.
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This case was decided by Division A. Writ of Error to the Criminal Court of Record for Duval County. Statement. An information was filed in the criminal court of record for Duval county, Florida, charging the plaintiff in error with embezzlement of money held by him as Treasurer of a Lodge of Knights of Pythias. When arraigned the defendant pleaded not guilty, and at the trial presented challenges to the array of jurors and moved to quash the venires both as to the regular panel drawn from the jury box, and the special panel selected by the sheriff. The challenges sworn to by the defendant…
1Opinion of the Court
Whitfield, J.,
(after stating the facts).-—Having been convicted of embezzlement, the plaintiff in error insists here on writ of error that the trial court erred in overruling his challenges to the array of jurors made on the ground that there was illegal discrimination in the selection and summoning of the jurors.
It is not contended that the statutes of this state under which the jurors were selected and summoned are violative of an constitutional provision; but it is urged that the action of the officers of the state in the execution or administration of the statutory provisions for…
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