State v. . Collins

The defendant was indicted in the Superior Court of Nash County for an assault with a deadly weapon on Will Swain. The defendant, before pleading to the bill, moved the court to quash it, for the reason that the Legislature had, prior to the return of the indictment by the grand jury, established a recorder’s court in the county of Nash and had conferred exclusive jurisdiction upon that court to hear and determine a certain class of criminal offenses, including the one which is charged in the bill of indictment to have been committed by the defendant. The court quashed the bill, and the State…