Hall v. State

This Writ of Error was taken to a conviction of murder in the second degree in a trial had in 1922 in the Circuitl Court for Bay County, upon a reestablished copy of an indictment charging murder in the first degree committed in 1917. The original indictment was found in 1917, but it was destroyed by fire in 1920, *240before the defendant had been arraigned or tried thereunder.

The Constitution provides that “no person shall be tried for a capital crime or other felony, unless upon presentment or indictment by a grand jury, except” in cases not material here. Sec. 10, Declaration of Rights.

The…