State v. . Baxter

When this appeal was called for hearing in this Court, counsel for defendant moved that the judgment of the Superior Court in this action be arrested, for that it does not appear from the record certified to this Court that in his order for a special term of the Superior Court of Chatham County, to begin on Monday, 6 August, 1934, the Governor of this State ordered that a grand jury should be drawn at said special term. The defendant contends that the indictment on which he was tried and convicted is void for that said indictment was returned by a grand jury which was drawn, chosen, sworn,…