State v. Fenderson

Ludeling, G. J.

The petitioner represents that “on the twelfth of May, 1875, there was returned into the Superior Criminal Court of New ■Orleans, by a body styling themselves a grand jury, a ‘ true bill,’ indicting petitioner for murder.” He represents that he was tried on said indictment and convicted and was sentenced to be hung. Ho representa that the men styling themselves a grand jury were not grand jurors, and had no right or authority in law to indict petitioner, because they were selected or organized by George H. Braughn, who was not judge ■of said court at the time, and that the…