State ex rel. Marceaux v. DeBaillon

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nioiiolls, C. J.

In relator’s application for prohibition he avers that he is about to he tried in the parish of Vermillion upon five papers purporting to be indictments found against him by what is claimed to have been a grand jury for that parish, but in reality by one which had ceased to have any legal existence. That it was empaneled •on May 9, 1896, and went out of existence on the 12th of May, 1898 (date of the going into effect of the Constitution of 1898), by the terms of Article 117 of the Constitution of 1898- That said indictments were null…