State v. Hayes

It should be noted that the purpose of these motions can not be to obtain information or evidence upon which to base an attack on the validity of any indictment which has been found on the strength of that evidence. This action was instituted, not on an indictment, but on an information, and, accordingly, theer is no indictment, for the accused to attack. The attack on the information based on claimed irregularities in the grand jury proceedings has already been made in the pleas in abatement (6 Conn. Sup. 215) and motions to quash (6 Conn. Sup. 227). On the pleas in-abatement, no evidence…