State v. Cantrell

At the October term, 1857, of the Izard Circuit Court, Cantrell was indicted for gaming. A plea in abatement was filed, to which the State demurred. The court overruled the demurrer, and the State saying nothing further, the indictment was quashed, and Cantrell discharged.

It appears from the plea in abatement, that the County Court, at July term, 1857, ordered that sixteen persons, naming them, should be summoned as grand jurors to serve at October term, 1857, of the Circuit Court, and that among the number was one Samuel Evans, whom the sheriff did not summon — but that the sheriff without…