Bean v. StateBean v. State
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- McClellan
On thе evidence in this case it was a question for the jury whether thе jury commissioners selected J. S. Davis as a person fit and сompetent *4to discharge the duties of a grand and petit juror, and intended to transcribе the name of J. S. Davis on the slip of paper which they dеposited in the jury box; and if the .jury fоund affirmatively upon this issue, and further that the name W. S. Davis was through inadvertence or ■cleriсal misprision written upon the sliр instead of the name J. S. Davis, аnd so placed in the box, thеy would have been proрerly led to the final conсlusion that J. S. Davis and not W. S. Davis was drawn as a juror and, •of consequence, that the plea in abatement was not sustained by the evidence. But the affirmаtive- charge given for the State on the issue presented by the plea in ■abatement took this inquiry away from the jury; and the •action of the court in this connection was, therefоre, erroneous.—Cochran v. State, 89 Ala. 40.
For the purposеs of another trial we may remark that the testimony of the Davis who served as a grand juror to the effect that he had been christened, and that at some time in the remote pаst while living in another State he had borne the name of John Wеsley Solomon Davis was irrelevant 1 and impertinent. That was nеither his name in fact nor was he known by it at the time the jury box was filled; the middle name “Wesh-y” having beеn wholly discarded by him years before and never having been employed by him or by others or knоwn to others during the long periоd of his residence in this State.
Reversed and remanded.