State v. Joiner

Gibson Joiner was indicted by the grand jury, at the September term, 1852, of the Circuit Court for Wayne county, for petit larceny, charged with stealing one wool hat of the value of two dollars. At the March term, the defendant appeared and moved the court to quash the indictment, because there is no prosecutor endorsed on the same, and because the stealing is charged to have been done feloniously. The court quashed the indictment; the attorney for the State excepted, and brings the case here by appeal.

1. The indictment, upon its face, is formal; the charging that the larceny was committed…