State v. Mayo

Bills of indictment may be quashed for want of jurisdiction, S. v. Sloan, 238 N.C. 547, 78 S.E. 2d 312, irregularity in the selection of the Grand Jury, Miller v. State, 237 N.C. 29, 74 S.E. 2d 513, and for defects in the bill of indictment, S. v. Faulkner, 241 N.C. 609, 86 S.E. 2d 81.

A defect in a bill of indictment is not cured by the statute which enables the defendant to call for a bill of particulars . . . the particulars authorized are not a part of the indictment, S. v. Thornton, 251 N.C. 658, 111 S.E. 2d 901. As stated in Joyce on Indictments, Sec. 326, p. 364:

“* * * If the indictment…