Bell v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Maclison. Tried before the Hon. Paul Speake. The appellant in this case, Bud Bell, was indicted and tried for the murder of Frank Stewart, was convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for twenty years.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Maclison. Tried before the Hon. Paul Speake. The appellant in this case, Bud Bell, was indicted and tried for the murder of Frank Stewart, was convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for twenty years. After the twelve jurors constituting the panel to try the case had been selected and had taken their places in the jury box, the judge presiding, before having the oath administered to such jurors, allowed them ten minutes in which to send messages to their families and make any other arrangements they might…
1Opinion of the CourtTyson, J.
Motion was made by defendant to quash the panel of jurors drawn and selected to try the case; *64also to discharge from the panel selected the two Wood-evs. These motions were predicated upon the fact that these two venire-men had separated themselves from the other ten, all of which had been selected and were to compose the jury to try the case. The twelve venire-men had not been sworn as jurors. Prom this statement it will be seen that the question presented is whether the rule in capital cases forbidding the jury to separate applies.
This question is res integra in this State. It has, however,…
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