The People v. McDonald

The defendants, John Mitchell McDonald and Robert Robertson, were jointly indicted in an indictment containing seventeen counts, in the circuit court of Franklin county, charging them with the manufacture, procuring or disposing of dynamite or other explosive compound with the intent to sell the same or that the same might be used for unlawful injury to or destruction of property, and specifically the property of the Valier Coal Company, a corporation. A motion to quash the indictment and each count thereof was overruled. Before the commencement of the trial there was a motion to suppress…