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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

United States v. Donahoo.
    In forcible entry and detainer, it is not necessary that it should appear upon certiorari, that the inquest was taken on the spot where the force was used; nor that the jurors should appear to be qualified according to the requisites of the common law.
    Inquisition for forcible entry and detainer brought up by certi-orari.
    
    
      Mr. Morsell
    
    moved to quash the inquisition, because the inquest was not taken on the spot where the force is alleged to have been used, and because it did not appear that the jurors had the common-law qualifications of grand jurors; this being a proceeding at the common law.
    
      Mr. F. S. Key, contra.
    
    The issue is joined below on the traverse of the force, and the proceedings werp there arrested by the certiorari. The defendant cannot take advantage of any thing but what would avail him in arrest of judgment. The warrant to the marshal is, to summon sufficient and indifferent persons to inquire upon their oath, &c., and it does not appear on the proceedings that they were not sufficient.
   The Court

(Fitzhugh, J., absent,)

refused to quash the inquisition on either of the grounds suggested.