People v. Haxton
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the County Court of Morgan county; the Hon. William E. Thomson, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1917.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Graves
delivered the opinion of the court.
The plaintiff in error, Walter Haxton, alias Pete Haxton, was indicted by the grand jury of Morgan county, Illinois, in May, 1916, for the violation of the1 statute against selling liquor in anti-saloon territory. The indictment was certified to the County Court for trial. There were no names of witnesses indorsed on the back of the indictment. Before the plaintiff in error was arraigned he made his motion to quash the indictment on the ground that the foreman of the grand jury had not indorsed on the back of the indictment the…
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