State v. Alexander

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Fenner, J.

The sole error assigned is the overruling of a motion to quash the indictment, on the ground that one of the grand jury finding the same did not possess the qualifications required by law, because not a citizen of the State and not a bona fide resident of the parish for one year next preceding his service as grand juror.

It appears that the grand juror objected to had, for more than a year, sojourned in the State of Texas, upon business of a temporary nature, but, as he declares, with no intention of changing his citizenship or abandoning his…