Pfeiffer v. State

John F. Pfeiffer was convicted of embezzling $1,213 belonging to Pima county during or while he was a deputy assessor of said county.

On this appeal he assigns errors as follows: (1) The denial of his motion to quash the indictment, the ground of said motion being that the grand jury that returned the indictment had no legal evidence before it but only incompetent testimony and hearsay. (2) A statement to the jury, under circumstances hereafter detailed, as follows: “Now, gentlemen, we have been sitting on this case about two weeks now, and to have a mistrial of the case would be very, very…