State v. Beal

The state produced as witnesses against defendant Charles Marcellus, J. A. White, Paul Herman, George Wright, and H. J. Richardson. The names of all these witnesses except Wright -were indorsed cn the bach of the indictment, but none 'of them were before the grand jury; and, as we shall sée, no notice was served upon the defendant of the introduction of their testimony, as required by section'5806, McClain’s Code. It appears, however, that defendant *40had a preliminary examination before a committing magistrate, and that this officer took down minutes of the testimony of witnesses taken before…