Price v. State

The appellant, Owen Price, was indicted by the grand jury of Marshall county on a charge of manslaughter, and was tried and convicted of that offense, and from such conviction prosecutes this appeal.

The principal assignment of error is that the court erred in overruling the motion to quash the indictment because a petition was presented to the grand jury, or was circulated and signed by several persons and reached the grand jury room, and was in the grand jury room during some part of the session of the grand jury. It was alleged in the motion to quash the indictment that the first grand jury…