Hall v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Circuit Court, Monroe County; John D. Leigh, Judge. ■^Vill Hall was convicted of manslaughter, and he appeals. The motion to quash the venire was based on the ground that the trial judge did not draw the names of the jurors from the jury box one by one, as- the law provides, but drew several names of jurors therefrom at the same time.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Monroe County; John D. Leigh, Judge. ■^Vill Hall was convicted of manslaughter, and he appeals. The motion to quash the venire was based on the ground that the trial judge did not draw the names of the jurors from the jury box one by one, as- the law provides, but drew several names of jurors therefrom at the same time. When the juror G. C. Watson was called to be qualified, it was shown that he was a member of a jury commission, and that he claimed his exemption as such, whereupon the court excused said Watson, and directed that his name be stricken from the jury…
1Opinion of the Court
SAMFORD,. J.
We have carefully considered the exceptions shown by this record, and find none of a prejudicial nature except as shall be hereinafter shown.
[1] G. G. Watson was shown to have been one of the jury commissioners of Monroe county, and as such was exempt from jury duty under Acts 1909, p. 305, § 13. The manner of making the proof of this fact was not objected to by the defendant, and any irregularity in making it was waived.
[2] The manner of drawing the special venire adopted by the trial judge, while not the usual way of drawing the names of jurors from the jury box, is not…
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