Baker v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Phillips Circuit Court. Grant Green, Jr., Judge. Gilbert Baker bas appealed from a conviction of the crime of receiving stolen goods under an indictment containing two counts, — the first for grand larceny, the second for receiving stolen goods. Defendant moved to set aside the indictment upon the following grounds: “(1) The said indictment was not found or presented by sixteen good and lawful, fair and impartial, jurors.
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Appeal from Phillips Circuit Court. Grant Green, Jr., Judge. Gilbert Baker bas appealed from a conviction of the crime of receiving stolen goods under an indictment containing two counts, — the first for grand larceny, the second for receiving stolen goods. Defendant moved to set aside the indictment upon the following grounds: “(1) The said indictment was not found or presented by sixteen good and lawful, fair and impartial, jurors. (2) E. S. Ready, the injured party named in the indictment herein, was a grand juror and member of the grand jury by whom said indictment was preferred, and had…
1Opinion of the CourtHughes, J.
_ i. whenobto^ornpetency oí grand jurors. The demurrer of the appellee to the second, third and fourth grounds of appellant’s motion . ° x to quash the indictment was properly sustained. There was no evidence to sustain the first and fifth grounds of the motion. The sixth ground was merely formal.
“ Sec. 2098, Mansf. Dig., which provides that ‘every person held to answer a criminal charge may object to the competency of any one summoned to serve as a grand juror, before he is sworn, on the ground that he is the prosecutor or complainant upon any charge against such person, or that he is a…
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