Newton v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Orange county. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice YanYalicenburgh
The plaintiff in error, Archibald William PTewton, on the twenty-second day of May, A. D. 1883, was indicted in the county of Orange for the murder of one Samuel McMillan.
On the 31st day of May, at the same term of the Circuit Court, the defendant, PTewton, was arraigned and entered his plea in abatement, alleging that the indictment was *57found by an illegally constituted grand jury, in this: that the grand jury had never been legally drawn and summoned ; that on the 14th day of April, 1883, the Clerk of the Court, in pursuance of law, drew from the box eighteen men to serve as grand jurors…
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