Daughdrill v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Indictment for Murder. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Etowah. The appellant was indicted and tried for the murder of one Joseph Bates, was convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to be hanged.
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Indictment for Murder. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Etowah. The appellant was indicted and tried for the murder of one Joseph Bates, was convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to be hanged. During the term time of the circuit court of Etowah, to-wit, on May 11, 1896, the judge of the ninth judicial circuit, who was presiding at said court, made the following order ; “In the opinion of the presiding judge a grand jury should be impannelled at this term of the circuit court of said county, and no grand jury having been returned to serve at said term, it is ordered by the…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
Section 4316 of the Code provides that, if in consequence of any neglect on the part of the probate judge, sheriff, or clerk of the circuit court, or from any other cause, no grand or petit jury is returned to serve at any term of the court, the court may, by an order entered on the minutes, direct the sheriff forthwith to summon eighteen persons qualified to serve as grand jurors, and the requisite number to serve as petit jurors, and may supply the places of persons so summoned and failing to attend, &c.
By an act "to authorize the judge of the ninth judicial circuit to direct when a grand…
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