Note 286 — Chapter XIX · The Glass Trials and Conviction.

Glass’s attorneys contended to the last moment that the trial judge had no jurisdiction to hear the case. After the District Attorney’s opening statement had been made, but before the taking of testimony had begun, Mr. Delmas for the defense, stated that in the opinion of the counsel for the defendant the court had no jurisdiction to try the case on the ground that the Grand Jury which returned the purported indictment was an illegal body, having no power to sit as a grand jury at the time it returned the indictment.