State v. . Avant

The defendant’s contention, presented by his first assignment of error on his appeal to this Court, that the indictment in this action is not valid, cannot be sustained. This assignment of error is based on defendant’s exception to the refusal of the trial judge to allow his motion to quash the indictment. The grounds for this motion were (1) that when returned into court by the grand jury, as provided by statute (C. S., 4611), the bill of indictment was not endorsed by the foreman of tbe grand jury or otherwise as “a true bill”; and (2) that tbe names of tbe witnesses for tbe State who were…