State v. . McNeill
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Grand Jury — Indictment—Practice— Quashing — Challenges to Jury. Indictment for Larch NY, tried before Meares, Judge, and a jury, at May Term, 1885, of the Criminal Court of New Hanover county. There was a verdict of guilty, and the defendants appealed. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMerrimon, J.
The interesting and important question, whether or not in this State, an indictment presented by the concurrence of only nine members of a grand jury, as allowed by the statute, (Acts 1885, eh. 63, §18), can be upheld as valid under the Constitution, is not presented by the record in this case, because, it appears affirmatively in the record that the indictment was presented in the manner and form, therein set forth, by twelve “good and lawful men, duly summoned, drawn and sworn, and charged to inquire for the State, of and concerning all crimes and offences,” &c. And upon the back of it is…
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