Jenkins v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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14 state decisions

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1. ““The appellant, Ben Jenkins, was indicted by a grand jury organized in the Jefferson County Circuit Court, for a capital felony. He was duly tried and convicted of this offense by a jury drawn, summoned and organized as provided by Subdivision 5, Tit. 62, of the Code of 1940, which embraces Section 196 to Section 228, inclusive— a codification of the law enacted and operating in Jefferson County prior to the adoption of the code — the dominant purpose of which, as appears from its provisions, was to provide secret venires for use in the courts of that county for the trial of all cases ‘whether civil or criminal, capital or otherwise,’ Code 1940, Tit. 62, § 213, as a safeguard against the supposed pernicious evil of tampering with or fixing jurors for the trial of cases, before the juries are organized and come under the immediate protection of the court. This jury law has been upheld as constitutional by this court. Morris v. State, 234 Ala. 520 , 175 So. 283 ; Vaughn v. State, 236 Ala. 442 , 183 So. 428 ; Dyer v. State, 241 Ala. 679 , 4 So.2d 311 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fuller v. State

2. “the several chapters, titles, and sections of the Code of Alabama are in pari materia, each having a field of operation and must be so construed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 370 So. 2d 740 - Prothro v. State

3. “the Code as a whole provides a system of law applicable to the [whole] state,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 354 So. 2d 808 - Peddycoart v. City of Birmingham