State v. . McDowell

'MerrimoN, J.

The papers in the case on file in this Court, purporting to be the transcript of the record in the Superior Court of the county of Bladen, fail to show that a Court was held by a Judge at the time and place prescribed by law. Nor does it appear, that a grand jury presented an indictment against the defendant; nor does a judgment appear. For these and other less important, defects, the Attorney General moved at the present term to dismiss the appeal.

Enough however, appears in the papers — not the transcript of ‘ a record — to satisfy us that there is, or ought to be, a record in…