Rafe v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Murder, in Liberty Superior Court. Tried before Judge Fleming, April Term, 1856. Tbe prisoner in tbis case challenged tbe array upon tbe following grounds— 1st. That said Jury bas not been drawn from the apartment of tbe Jury Box marked No. 3, as prescribed by the Judiciary Act of 1799: the Justices of tbe Inferior Court for Liberty County having failed to select ñt and proper persons to serve upon said Jury, and furnish a list of such persons to tbe Clerk of this Court, and…
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Murder, in Liberty Superior Court. Tried before Judge Fleming, April Term, 1856. Tbe prisoner in tbis case challenged tbe array upon tbe following grounds— 1st. That said Jury bas not been drawn from the apartment of tbe Jury Box marked No. 3, as prescribed by the Judiciary Act of 1799: the Justices of tbe Inferior Court for Liberty County having failed to select ñt and proper persons to serve upon said Jury, and furnish a list of such persons to tbe Clerk of this Court, and that tbe said Justices opened tbe Jury boxes of this Court and transposed, changed and altered tbe names in said boxes,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
McDonald, J.
delivering the opinion.
After the issue had been formed between the State and the prisoner on the bill of indictment, when a panel of forty-eight Jurors were put upon him, he challenged the array on the grounds above stated. It appears by the certificate of’ the presiding Judge, that the Justices of the Inferior Court, together with the Clerk and Sheriff, on the 1st Monday in June, 1854, from the-books of the Tax Receiver, selected persons deemed to be fit and proper persons to serve as Grand Jurors; that the lists containing the names were not sent to the Superior…
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