Jones v. State

The appellant was indicted by the Grand Jury of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, on a charge of a sale of marijuana. Before the trial began, the district attorney made a motion requesting the court to permit the State of Mississippi to amend the indictment so as to strike the word "sell" and to substitute the words "deliver and possess". The defendant, C.B. Jones, objected to this amendment upon the ground that the amendment substituted one charge for a new charge not contemplated by the grand jury, so that the court had no authority to change the charge by amendment.…