State v. Lyons

Speakman, J.,

delivering the opinion of the Court:

The defendants have filed fourteen reasons in support of their motion to quash the indictment. In view of our conclusions we shall consider, in their order, but five of these reasons, prefacing our discussion by the language of the reasons.

1. “That said purported indictment was not presented and returned by a legally constituted Grand Jury in that the Act of the General Assembly (Ch. 1, Vol. 37, Laws of Delaware) purporting to propose an amendment to the Constitution of Delaware changing and reducing the number of members of the Grand Jury for…