The People v. Green

An indictment was returned in the city court of Alton on September 17, 1927, charging Earl Green, in three counts, with the murder of Otto Roller by shooting him with a revolver on August 29, 1927, thereby inflicting upon him a mortal wound, of which he died on September 1, 1927. The defendant was arraigned on September 21 and entered a plea of not guilty. Counsel were appointed by the court to defend him, and a motion to quash the indictment was filed on October 10, stating as ground of the motion that each and every count of the indictment disclosed on its face that the grand jurors who…