State v. Van Auken
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Cerro Gordo District Court. — How. P. W. Burr, Judge. The defendant was convicted of the crime of forgery, and from the judgment, which required that he be imprisoned in the state penitentiary at Anamosa, at hard labor, for the term of six months, he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
1 I. The defendant had no opportunity to object to the grand jury until after the indictment was presented. He was then arraigned, and moved to set aside the indictment on the ground that the grand jurors who found it, were not the persons whose names were returned by the township officers for the grand jury list, and that they were not the persons who were drawn for the grand jury for the year 1895, in which the indictment was found. A further ground for the motion was that the indorsement on the indictment, “A true bill,” was not signed by a member of the grand jury. The motion was…
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