Watts v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Colbert Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. O. P. Almost. Will Watts was convicted of murder in the first degree, and lie appeals.
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Appeal from Colbert Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. O. P. Almost. Will Watts was convicted of murder in the first degree, and lie appeals. The motion to quash the indictment was based on the fact that certain jurors were impaneled and sworn, and a foreman from their number selected, and the grand jury thus organized, but that one Long absented himself, leaving 17 persons, whose names are here set out, and that the court directed the sheriff again to call from the list of the venire the names of the first 18 persons who appeared on the list of qualified jurors in attendance upon the court,…
1Opinion of the CourtSomerville, J.
Tlie defendant killed his wife, Topsey Watts, and Aims convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Under section 7572 of- the Code, no objection can be taken to an indictment for irregularities in the organization of the grand jury, “except that the jurors were not draAvn in the presence of the officers designated by laAV,” “and neither this objection nor any other can be taken to the formation of a special grand jury summoned by the direction of the court.”
Neither the motion to quash the indictment, nor the second, third, or fourth pleas in abatement,…
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