State v. . Hastings

The defendant is charged, and npon trial was convicted of forging a bond for the payment of money to himself, and purporting to be executed by Talor Nance and A. J. Derr, as described in the indictment. Before the jury were empanelled the defendant’s counsel moved to quash the bill, basing the motion upon the facts contained in an affidavit and which the court finds to be true, that a bill for the same offence had been found at a former term, and having become mutilated, a second bill had been prepared and conveyed to the door of the grand jury room and handed to the foreman by an attorney…