State v. Candelaria

OPINION OF THE COURT.

PARKER, C. J.

The appellee was indicted by a grand jury on April 4, 1923, for buying, receiving, and aiding in the concealment of certain stolen goods. He interposed a plea in abatement to the indictment upon the ground that the act, House Bill No. 239, Session Laws 1923, c. 131, under the provisions of which the grand jury finding the indictment had been selected and impaneled, was unconstitutional. A demurrer was interposed to the plea and was overruled and the indictment quashed, and the state has brought the case here by appeal.

Tbe ground upon which the claim that tbe…