Halbrook v. State

It appears from the transcript in this case, that, on the first day of the October term, 1875, (eleventh of October), of the circuit court of Conway county, a grand jury was impanneled, and retired to consider of their duties.

Then follows an indictment against Jeremiah H. Hal-brook for bigamy, indorsed by the clerk: “ Filed in open court, this sixteenth day of October, 1875,” but no record entry is copied in the transcript, showing that the indictment was presented in court by the grand jury.

Supposing there was such an entry, as there should have been, and that the clerk had failed to…