Amos v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of DeKalb. Tried before tlie Hon. Jomsr B. Tally. Tlie indictment in this case charged Bud Amos, Bube Amos, and Tobe Amos with., the murder of William Fuller.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of DeKalb. Tried before tlie Hon. Jomsr B. Tally. Tlie indictment in this case charged Bud Amos, Bube Amos, and Tobe Amos with., the murder of William Fuller. The appellant, Bube Amos, alone, was tried, and he was convicted of murder in the second degree: The bill of exceptions recites: “In organizing the jury for the trial of this cause, one J. W. Bush was called and sworn, and answered all the other questions as to his competency, except that he said he did not lmow whether he lived in De-Kalb county or not; that he lived near where they said the county line…
1Opinion of the Court
STONE, C. J".
1. One of tlie qualifications of a juror is that be should be a resident of tlie county in which he is summoned to serve on tlie jury, whether grand or petit. What constitutes a personal resident of any county or place has been repeatedly decided by this court. Rush, who was summoned as a special juror for the trial of tlie present Sase, is not shown to be a non-resident of DeKalb county. The fact that he did not know whether he lived in Jackson or DeKalb county is out-weighed by the additional fact that he claimed DeKalb county as the county of his residence, and had been living…
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