Gibson v. State

After a grand jury has returned into court a true bill of indictment, and it has been docketed and entered on the minutes of the court by the clerk of the court, has' the grand jury the authority at the same term of the court to recall the true bill and erase the entry of “true bill,” and make an entry of “no bill” on the indictment? The duties of a grand jury must be confined to such matters and things as they are required by the laws and statutes of this State to perform. Penal Code, § 833. There is no statute fixing the practice in the matter referred to in the question propounded to this…