State v. Brooks
Supreme Court of Alabama
On points reserved by the Circuit Court of Mobile, as novel and difficult. The defendant was convicted at the Circuit Court of Mobile, upon a charge of betting upon an unlawful gaming table. He pleaded several pleas in abatement of the indictment ; to all which the State demurred, and had judgment of respondeas ouster on the demurrer.
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On points reserved by the Circuit Court of Mobile, as novel and difficult. The defendant was convicted at the Circuit Court of Mobile, upon a charge of betting upon an unlawful gaming table. He pleaded several pleas in abatement of the indictment ; to all which the State demurred, and had judgment of respondeas ouster on the demurrer. The matters of defence asserted by these pleas, present the questions reserved for the decision of this Court, and are as follows, to-wit: 1. That the clerk of the Court did not, in the body of the writ of venire facias, recite at length, the names, places of…
1Opinion of the CourtGoldthwaite, J.
1. One object of the sixteenth chapter of the penal code is to provide a select class of indivi*13duals to serve as grand and petit jurors, instead of permitting them to be constituted, as well as summoned, at the discretion of the sheriff, or other executive officer of the law, from the citizens of the county generally, and at large. The selection of this class of individuals is confided to a board composed of the clerk and officers of the county, and that is invested with large discretionary powers in regard to the selection and rejection of individuals who, of the free-holders and…
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