Fugler v. State

The appellant was indicted for murder and convicted of manslaughter. The indictment was returned by the grand jury at a term of the court which convened on January 9, 1941. Its validity was challenged, but unsuccessfully, by the appellant on the ground that the court was without power to empanel a grand jury at its June term. Under Chapter 225, Laws 1940, the court below has full criminal jurisdiction at its June term. But the appellant says that chapter runs counter to Section 61 of the state’s Constitution, which provides that “No law shall be revived or amended by reference to its title…