State v. Davis

The defendant being in-dieted in the Court of Common Pleas, pleaded in abatement “that one. of the grand jurors who was taken up on venire, to wit, one Benjamin W. Healey, of the city and county of Providence, was not, when impanelled and sworn, and during the sitting of the grand jury and when the indictment was found, qualified to act as a grand juror, not being qualified to vote on any proposition to impose a tax or for the expenditure of money in said city or in any town in the county.” The plea was demurred to and overruled. The case comes before us by a bill of exceptions which raises…