State v. Thomas

Tbe defendant asserts tbat bis conviction and sentence in tbe Superior Court are invalid because be was tried upon tbe original warrant rather than upon an indictment found by a grand jury.

'When tbe representatives of tbe freemen of North Carolina met in convention at Halifax in 1776 to frame a constitution for tbe newly born state, they knew bow grossly the English Crown bad abused its legal power to prosecute its subjects upon informations preferred by its prosecuting attorneys without tbe intervention of a grand jury. S. v. Ledford, 203 N.C. 724, 166 S.E. 917; S. v. Guilford, 49 N.C. 83.…