Copeland v. Superior Court

On the seventeenth day of August, 1921, the petitioner was indicted by the grand jury of Los Angeles County for the crime of perjury. To this indictment a demurrer was interposed on the ground that it did not state facts sufficient to constitute a public offense, and the superior court ordered the same sustained, in making of which ruling the following language was used: “Demurrer to indictment sustained and case ordered resubmitted to the grand jury.” The district attorney thereupon resubmitted the case to the same grand jury, and a second indictment was returned against the petitioner also…