State v. . Jeffreys

The defendant's counsel moved that it might be quashed, because it did not appear on the face of the indictment before what court it was taken, nor indeed that it was taken before any court. Every caption of an indictment ought to show that it was taken before a court which had jurisdiction of the offense. 2 Haw. 359, sec. 119. That act repeals a former one, by which an adequate compensation was allowed to those law officers whose duty it is to draw indictments in the county courts; but the repealing act fixes so small a fee as the recompense for each indictment that the Legislature must have…