State v. Swiggart

This is a presentment found by the grand jury of Obion county against John Swiggart, road commissioner for the First civil district of said county, for failure to discharge certain of the duties imposed upon him by the general road law enacted by the general assembly April 15, 1901. Chapter 136, p. 237, of the pub*558lished Acts of that year, as amended by chapter 249, p. 580, of the published Acts of 1903.

The defendant filed a plea in abatement, averring that the presentment was not made upon the knowledge of any member of the grand jury, but upon the testimony of witnesses called by the grand…