McBride v. State

[Out constitutional] safeguards [are] the result of the tuisdom of centuries of experience, [and they] must be, by the courts, sacredly upheld, as well in [the] case of the guiltiest as of the most innocent defendant answering at the bar of his country.3

¶ 55. Whatever differences I may have with the majority, we surely agree on at least three things: (i) Only a grand jury may indict an accused; (ii) the grand jury-must indict for particular conduct it believes constituted a particular crime; and (iii) absent the accused’s consent otherwise, the State may seek a conviction for that crime, and…