People v. Barbour

Indictment for an assault with a deadly weapon.

This is an appeal from an order of the Court of Sessions, denying a motion to quash an indictment.

The objections taken to the indictment by appellant are:

1. That the Court in which the indictment was found was not constituted according to law.

2. That the law under which the indictment was found has been repealed, and that its provisions were not continued in force as to prosecutions pending under it.

The evidence relied on in support of the first point is an entry in the records of the Court, to the effect that, at the meeting of the Court, there…