State v. Marks

OPINION

DWYER, Judge.

The State appeals from the judgment of the Criminal Court of Davidson County in sustaining a plea in abatement filed by the defendant abating the indictment returned by the Davidson County Grand Jury. The indictment abated charged Sadie Marks, alias Madam Bell, with committing the offense of obtaining personal property (money) by false pretenses, to wit, palm reading.

It appears in the record that the court predicated its action in abating the indictment on the motion of the defendant that the prosecutor, a Mrs. Mary Hutcherson, did not appear before the grand jury when the…