State ex rel. Dunn v. Noyes
Wisconsin Supreme Court
CertioeaRi to the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. The facts are stated in the opinion. They contended, inter alia, that no statutory authority can be found to authorize the grand jury to continue its sessions and return indictments after the term for which it was impaneled, and it had no such authority outside of the statute. State v. Winebrenner, 67 Iowa, 230; Comm. v. JBannon, 97 Mass. 214; Barger v. State, 6 Blackf. 188; State v. Harden, 2 Kieh.
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CertioeaRi to the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. The facts are stated in the opinion. They contended, inter alia, that no statutory authority can be found to authorize the grand jury to continue its sessions and return indictments after the term for which it was impaneled, and it had no such authority outside of the statute. State v. Winebrenner, 67 Iowa, 230; Comm. v. JBannon, 97 Mass. 214; Barger v. State, 6 Blackf. 188; State v. Harden, 2 Kieh. (S. C.), 533; O' Byrnes v. State, 51 Ala. 25; Boyd v. State, 28 Tex. App. 524; Healon v. Reople, 39 Ill. App. 481. The alleged indictment,…
1Opinion of the CourtOrton, C. J.
The same questions being in both these cases, they will be considered and disposed of together. They are brought before this court by a common-law writ of eertioi'ari, to review the proceedings in habeas corpus of *342the judge of the circuit court of Milwaukee county, by which the defendants in error were discharged from imprisonment. The pleadings in the habeas corpus and the certiorari proceedings show the following facts:
On the last day of the October term of the municipal court of Milwaukee county, 1893, the grand jury of said court found and returned true bills of indictment against the…
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