Turner v. State

Jackson, Judge.

The defendant was indicted for the crime of an assault with intent to murder, found guilty, moved for a new trial, failed to get it below, and brings her case here.

1. The first ground in the motion is that the right oath was not admin istered to the witnesses by the grand jury who found the bill. The only proof of this was by one of the grand jury who found it. It is against public policy to permit him to testify. He must not impeach his own finding and the legality of it. The only evidence to show that the wrong oath was administered to the witnesses, and that the bill of…