Hall v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Fbom tbe Circuit Court of Etowab. Tried before tbe Hon. Wm. H. Smith. Tbe prisoner in tbis case, William M. Hall, was indicted for tbe murder of bis wife in August, 1865. Tbe indictment was found at tbe October term, 1865, of tbe circuit court of Cherokee county; and tbe cause was transferred, on tbe defendant’s application, at tbe October term, 1867, to tbe circuit court of Baine county.
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Fbom tbe Circuit Court of Etowab. Tried before tbe Hon. Wm. H. Smith. Tbe prisoner in tbis case, William M. Hall, was indicted for tbe murder of bis wife in August, 1865. Tbe indictment was found at tbe October term, 1865, of tbe circuit court of Cherokee county; and tbe cause was transferred, on tbe defendant’s application, at tbe October term, 1867, to tbe circuit court of Baine county. On tbe 8d November, 1867, an ordinance was adopted by the constitutional convention, then in session in Montgomery, by which Baine county was abolished, and it was declared “ that the territory and…
1Opinion of the CourtBrickell, J.
The decision rendered in this case, at the January term, 1872, on the application of the prisoner for a writ of mandamus to the judge of the circuit court of Etowah, commanding him to strike the cause from the docket of that court, we are compelled to regard as conclusively adjudicating that the cause is properly and legally pending in that court; that the court has, and must entertain, jurisdiction of it. We are unwilling to review or disturb that decision. Ex parte Hall, 47 Ala. 679.
2. The court properly overruled the motion of the defendant to quash the venire because of mistakes in the…
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