Legal Opinion

Green v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided January 7, 1937No. 6 Div. 922PublishedCited by 16 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ANDERSON, Chief Justice.

The appellant questions several rulings of the trial court with reference to the legality of the grand jury finding the indictment and the venire by which he was tried. Counsel, in effect, concede that the rulings of the trial court substantially conformed to the “Robinson Jury Law” Gen. Acts 1932, Ex. Sess., p. 89, but vigorously argue that said act is invalid as violative of several constitutional provisions. It is sufficient to suggest that the validity of this act was upheld by the Court of Appeals in the case of Dixon v. State, 232 Ala. 150, 167 So. 349. This…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Dixon v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1936
  2. Payne v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1877
  3. Henson v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1898
  4. Long v. WhitSupreme Court of Alabama · 1916
  5. Brown v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1885

3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Dyer v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1941
  2. Burns v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1944
  3. Vaughn v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1938
  4. Edwards v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1966
  5. Willis v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1953

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