State v. Lillie

The defendant has appealed from a judgment of conviction of larceny by bailee. He has brought no bill of exceptions to this court, and urges as the sole ground for reversal that it appears upon the face of the record that the circuit court was without jurisdiction of the cause.

The defendant was not proceeded against by indictment of the grand jury, but by information filed by the district attorney, purporting to act under authority of original Art. VII, § 18, of the constitution, which, so far as it is now pertinent, reads as follows:

“No person shall be charged in any circuit court with the…