Heacock v. State

This was an indictment for seduction. There was a motion to quash the indictment overruled.

After trial and conviction, there was a motion in arrest -.of judgment made and overruled, and exception^ taken, at the *394proper time, to each of ^hese rulings. Each of these motions should have been sustained.

Sec. 16, 2 G. & H. 394: “Each juror must take the usual oath. The court must plainly instruct them as to their duty. An indictment may be found by any nine. It must be indorsed by the foreman, ‘A true bill.—A. B. foreman,’ returned into open court, and filed by the clerk.'”

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