State v. Williams
Supreme Court of Alabama
On points reserved as novel and difficult. From the Circuit Court of Madison. Williams was indicted in the Circuit Court of Morgan county, from which county the venue was changed to Madison, for the offence of horse-stealing.
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On points reserved as novel and difficult. From the Circuit Court of Madison. Williams was indicted in the Circuit Court of Morgan county, from which county the venue was changed to Madison, for the offence of horse-stealing. The indictment was prefered at March term, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and was found by a grand jury, composed of thirty-five persons, summoned under a writ of venire facias, issued and signed by the clerk of the Circuit Court of Morgan county, directed to the sheriff, and dated the tenth day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-five. The list contained the…
1Opinion of the CourtHopkins, C. J.
On the tenth day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, a venire faci-as was issued by the clerk of the Circuit Court of Morgan county, commanding the sheriff of that county, to summon thirty-six men, who are named in the process, to attend the next term thereafter, of the Circuit Court of Morgan, to serve as jurors. At the time the process was issued, the law required the Judge of the ' County Court, the commissioners of revenue, the clerk-of the Circuit Court, and the sheriff, to select in the mode prescribed by law, from the list of free-holders and house-holders, which had been…
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