STATE v. DAVIES


146 Conn. 137 (1959)

STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. GEORGE J. DAVIES

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided January 8, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward T. Carmody, public defender, and G. Bradford Palmer, special assistant public defender, for the appellant (defendant).

William B. Fitzgerald, state's attorney, with whom was Walter W. Smyth, assistant state's attorney, for the appellee (state).

DALY, C. J., BALDWIN, KING, MURPHY and MELLITZ, JS.


DALY, C. J.

The defendant has appealed, after a trial to a jury, from his conviction on a charge of murder in the first degree. He assigns error in the sustaining of a demurrer to his plea in abatement and in the charge to the jury.

The defendant filed a plea in abatement alleging that the indictment accusing him of murder in the first degree was found by a grand jury; that seven of the eighteen grand jurors constituting the grand jury were attorneys at law...

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