Bodkin v. State

Indictment for retailing. Motion, to quash overruled, and exception. Trial, conviction, and judgment. Before trial and conviction, the record did not show any impanneling of a grand jury, or return by that body of any indictment into Court. The Clerk says that “ on the 15th day of February, 1862, the following indictment was filed in this cause, in the office of the Clerk of the Grant Circuit *282Court, in the following words, to-wit,” &c. After trial and conviction, which took place at the August term, 1862, the attention of the Court being called to this defect in the record, the Court caused…