Territory v. Anderson

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

COKE, C. J.

In each of the aboA^e cases an indictment Avas returned by the grand jury of the first judicial circuit against the defendant Anderson and to each of said indictments Anderson by bis attorneys, Messrs. Thompson & Cathcart, appeared and interposed a motion to quash. These motions were based upon identical grounds, to Avit: (1) *56that the grand jury had previously acted upon the facts and had returned no bill and that subsequently thereto without an order of court directing them or permitting them so to do had reconsidered the same facts and had returned the…