State v. Pate

— The defendant was indicted at the Octo*489ber term, 1874, of the Montgomery circuit court, for keeping a billiard table without license. The grand jury was summoned for the said October term, hut, on the 29th of October, 1874, the court adjourned to the first day of December, 1874, when, as it appears from the record, the indictment was found by the grand jury summoned for the said October term.

1.GRAND JURY: adjurned term. Defendant’s counsel contend that the adjournment discharged the grand jury, and that their authority then ceased, and cite, in support of that view, Dulle v. Deimler, 28 Mo.…