Palmore v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Phillips Criminal Court. Hon. Charles C. Waters, Judge.
1Opinion of the Court
Williams, Sp. J.
The appellant was indicted in the criminal court of Phillips county, for murder of one Meyers. He filed his motion to set aside the indictment, on the ground that two members of the grand jury that found the indictment were not freeholders or householders. To this motion the state demurred, the court sustained the demurrer, and appellant excepted.
Section 1978 of Gantt’s Digest prohibits all exceptions to the ruling of inferior courts in refusing to set aside an indictment for certain causes, among others this. This section violates the provision of the constitution of 1868,…
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