State v. Ansaleme

I. Defendant moved to set aside the indictment, upon the ground that the grand jurors were not selected and returned by the judges of election in the manner required by law. From the evidence submitted in support of this motion, it appeared that accompanying the different poll books of the several townships was what purported to be a list of grand and petit jurors. In some instances such lists were regularly headed and certified by the judges. In others there were lists designating which were grand and which petit jurors, not signed, however, nor in any manner certified by any officer. In two…