State v. Knight
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Delaware District Court. Challenge to grand jury — change oe venue — TERM OP COURT, WHEN IT ENDS — EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OP conpession, &C. — At the September Term, 1864, of the District Court of Buchanan county, the defendant, Knight, was jointly indicted with Christian Rorabacher and Wallace P. Pollard, charged with having burglariously entered the office of the county treasurer, in the court house in that county, on the night of the 17th day of March, 1864, and…
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Appeal from Delaware District Court. Challenge to grand jury — change oe venue — TERM OP COURT, WHEN IT ENDS — EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OP conpession, &C. — At the September Term, 1864, of the District Court of Buchanan county, the defendant, Knight, was jointly indicted with Christian Rorabacher and Wallace P. Pollard, charged with having burglariously entered the office of the county treasurer, in the court house in that county, on the night of the 17th day of March, 1864, and with having stolen from the safe therein, money of the county, and of others, to the value of about $26,000. At the same…
1Opinion of the CourtDillon, J.
i. grand drawing, —I. Did the court err in overruling the defendant’s challenge to the grand jury? The chief objection alleged against the grand jury is, that the judges of elections in the various townships returned in all 85, instead of 75, names from which to select the fifteen grand jurors required by law. The extra names were stricken off before the grand jury was drawn, and fifteen jurors were regularly drawn and summoned. There is here no error, nor semblance of any.
Nor was it a valid objection to the grand jury that no copy had been made into the election book of the lists of persons…
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