State v. Bibbs

"As to the second ground, I may add the consideration that one who may be drawn, sworn in, and acts as a grand juror in passing upon an indictment, when he is not legally qualified to do so, is a stranger to the proceedings, as much as if he had never been drawn; his participation would therefore be illegal; it would be impossible to gauge the extent of his influence upon the qualified members of the jury."

"The Legislature may prescribe the methods for exercising the constitutional and statutory jurisdiction of boards of supervisors, and where it does prescribe the mode of procedure, the rule…