Wilkinson v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the City Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. O. J. Sbmmes. The appellants, James Wilkinson and Daniel Wilkinson, were indicted and tried for the murder of Edward Chastang, and were convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. The rulings of the court upon the motion to quash the venire are sufficiently shown in the opinion.
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Appeal from the City Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. O. J. Sbmmes. The appellants, James Wilkinson and Daniel Wilkinson, were indicted and tried for the murder of Edward Chastang, and were convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. The rulings of the court upon the motion to quash the venire are sufficiently shown in the opinion. The evidence for the State, as shown by the hi]] of exceptions, tended to show that the deceased, Edward Chastang and his brother, Frank Chastang, met the defendants in a public road in Mobile county, and that Edward…
1Opinion of the CourtHaralson, J.
— The special law of Mobile county, (Acts of 1886 — 87, section 5, p. 203) provides, that the jury commissioners, charged with the duty of selecting the sixteen hundred persons prescribed, most competent in their opinion to discharge the duties of grand and petit jurors, shall, upon the completion of a roll or list of jurors, cause to be. prepared slips of strong white paper of equal size and texture on which shall be written, in a plain and distinct hand, the name of every person who has been entered on said roll — one person’s name being entered on each slip — and that all persons on said…
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