State v. Stell

ODOM; ’Justice.

S. J. Stell, H. W. Stell, and Tony Baronne were indicted by a grand jury, which indictment charged that they had committed certain misdemeanors denounced by Act No. 43 of 1942, known as the new Criminal Code.

Prior to arraignment they filed a motion to quash the indictment and challenged the grand jury array, on the grounds that the selection of the grand jury list and the drawing of the panel were illegal, null, and void, and that the grand jury was incompetent to return a true bill against them. This motion to quash was overruled, and a bill of exception was reserved.…