Lynch v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1873, No. 31. In this case Ambrose E. Lynch was indicted at the June Sessions 1872, of the Oyer and Terminer of Allegheny county, for the murder of William Hadfield.
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Error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1873, No. 31. In this case Ambrose E. Lynch was indicted at the June Sessions 1872, of the Oyer and Terminer of Allegheny county, for the murder of William Hadfield. The precept of the Judges of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, to the clerk of the court, &c., commanded him to “ issue a venire facias to the sheriff and commissioners of the county aforesaid,” to proceed to select twenty-four persons to serve as grand jurors, &c. The precept was dated April 2d 1872, and signed by the three judges. The venire…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Read
By the 2d sect, of the Act of 10th April 1867, it is made the duty of the jury commissioners, president judges, or additional law judges of the respective district, to meet at the seat of justice of the county, at least thirty days before the first term of the Court of Common Pleas in every year, and select the jurors agreeably to the provisions of said section, who are to serve as jurors in the several courts of such county, during that year. The names of the persons so selected shall be placed by them, or a majority of them, in the proper wheel, in the mode and manner directed by law. The…
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