Haskell v. Hannah

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a challenge propter affectum was not a “good ground for a plea to abate the accusation,” but noting that it is proper for the court to hear challenges to grand jurors based on bias and partiality “in advance of the grand jury’s action”
• holding that a challenge propter affectum was not “a good ground for a plea to abate the accusation,” but noting that it is proper for the court to hear challenges to grand jurors based on bias and partiality “in advance of the grand jury’s action”
• disqualification of a grand juror on account of prejudice will not require dismissal of a charge
• disqualification of a grand juror on account of prejudice will not require dismissal of a charge
• “In investigating crimes the grand jurors are performing a function for the benefit of the State[.]”
• “In investigating crimes the grand jurors are performing a function for the benefit of the State”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).