McCorkle v. State

James A. Me Gorkle was indicted in the Wayne Circuit Court for larceny. On being arraigned, he moved to quash the indictment on account of the date at *40which the offense was laid as having been committed; whereupon the state proposed to return the indictment to the grand jury for correction. To obviate the necessity for such return, the defendant withdrew his .motion to quash, and consented to a correction, in open Court, of the mistake in the date, and to an entry of record of a waiver of all objection, and pleaded not guilty to the indictment.

At a subsequent stage, of the proceedings, he…