 | 1915 - 1294 sider
...Digests & Indexes the agent of the executive authority making the demand, the "indictment" contemplated is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor preferred to and presented upon oath by a grand jury, and the statute contemplates an indictment found in due course of procedure... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - 1888 - 678 sider
...and persons who seek to gratify their spleen or malice. STATE v. IVEY. The indictment is the formal written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented upon, their oath by a grand jury. In strict legal parlance it is not so called, until the bill has... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - 1889 - 282 sider
...which must be by the concurrence of at least twelve of the jurors, attested by oath or affirmation. An indictment Is a written accusation of one or more...crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented upon oath by, a grand jury. Blackitone, Com., IV. xxlll. 3. In Scot* fair, a form or process by which... | |
 | Charles John Smith - 1890 - 802 sider
...•- neither the same interests nor the same passions as popular assemblies." — BLACKSTUNE. " An indictment Is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanour, preferred to and presented upon oath by a grand jury." — Ibid. INDICT ( Lat. indiccre,... | |
 | John C. Devereux - 1891 - 432 sider
...matters relating to the crown, upon evidence laid before them. 5. What is an indictment?— 302. It is a written accusation of one or more persons of...crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented upon oath by, a grand jury. 6. Of what number may the grand jury consist? — 302. Of twelve at the... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - 1893 - 1326 sider
...existed in 1805, unless otherwise provided. Acts of 1805 and 1835 ; R. S , Sec. 876 ; 8 R. 545. An Indictment is "A written accusation of one or more...a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to and presented by a grand jury upon oath '' 1tlackstone, Vol. 4, Sec. 302; 2 Hale. 152; 1 Chit. Cr. Law, 168; Bouvier's... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - 1893 - 558 sider
...inquire of matters relating to the crown upon evidence laid before them. INIUCTMENT-fiRAND JUtï. II. An indictment is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanour, preferred to, and presented upon oath by, a grand jury. To this end the sheriff of every... | |
 | Frank Sumner Rice - 1894 - 1062 sider
...Cases, Circ. Ev. Intro. 35. § 250. Characteristics of an Indictment. — The indictment is the formal written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor preferred to, and presented upon their oath by, a grand jury. In strict legal parlance it is not so called until the bill has been... | |
 | William Ralston Balch - 1895 - 836 sider
...indented; now the name usually given to deeds, although indenting is no longer essential. Indictment. A written accusation, of one or more persons, of a...preferred to, and presented on oath, by a grand jury. In esse. This term is used to express anything that has a real being, in contradistinction to the term... | |
 | William Ralston Balch - 1895 - 830 sider
...although indenting is no longer essential. Indictment. A written accusation, of one or more person*., of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented on oath, by a grand jury. In esse. This term is used to express any thing that hns a real being, in contradistinclion to the... | |
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An indictment is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented upon oath by, a grand jury. 
