Martin v. State

This indictment was presented and filed at the Fall Term, 1856. At the Spring Term, 11th April, 1857, the defendant pleaded, in abatement, that Patrick Henry C. Pearcy, one of the grand jurors who found the bill, was not a freeholder in the State, nor householder in the county, as well as other grounds. The district attorney admitted the facts, “ but denied the sufficiency of the plea, under the new Code,” and the court sustained the objections to the plea, and held it to be insufficient ; to whieh ruling, the defendant excepted.

The Code provides, “ that all proceedings, had after the time “…