Randall v. State

The opinion' of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

This writ of error is prosecuted to reverse a judgment of the General Quarter Sessions'of Sussex county upon the conviction of the plaintiff for prison breach. Several questions are raised with regard to the organization of the •grand jury and the jurisdiction of the court, which have been •at this present term considered and decided in reviewing a judgment against the plaintiff for stealing. The other questions relate to the indictment and the proof.

It is claimed that the indictment is defective because it does not allege the prison breach…