Brannan v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

This conviction was for misdemeanor theft. There are several questions presented in the record, but these are not discussed for the reason that the judgment must be reversed and the prosecution dismissed because of want of a legal in-. dictment. There is in the record what purports to be an indictment preferred by the grand jury, but the facts show that the grand jury so presenting it was an illegal one, one empanelled and acting without authority of law. It would serve no useful purpose to repeat the facts, and circumstances which constituted the grand jury an…